C S E C The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to
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CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in Micronesia. Some of these
links may lead to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated,
misleading or even false. No attempt
has been made to validate their authenticity or to verify their content. HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking for
material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on this
page and others to see which aspects of child prostitution are of particular
interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring how children got started, how they survive, and how
some succeed in leaving. Perhaps your
paper could focus on runaways and the abuse that led to their leaving. Other factors of interest might be poverty,
rejection, drug dependence, coercion, violence, addiction, hunger, neglect,
etc. On the other hand, you might
choose to write about the manipulative and dangerous adults who control this
activity. There is a lot to the
subject of Child Prostitution. Scan
other countries as well as this one.
Draw comparisons between activity in adjacent countries and/or
regions. Meanwhile, check out some of
the Term-Paper
resources that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human
Rights Reports » 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 10, 2020 www.state.gov/reports/2019-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/micronesia/ [accessed 3
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law sets a maximum penalty of 30 years’
imprisonment and a $50,000 fine for child trafficking. The states’ statutory
rape laws apply to children age 13 or younger in Yap and Kosrae,
15 or younger in Pohnpei, and 17 or younger in
Chuuk. Maximum penalties vary by state. In Chuuk and Pohnpei,
it is five years’ imprisonment and a $5,000 fine, while in Kosrae and Yap, it is 10 years’
imprisonment and a $20,000 fine. Only Pohnpei has a
statute prohibiting child pornography. Both Chuuk and Pohnpei
have provisions against filming explicit movies of underage children, but Yap
and Kosrae have no such provisions. Both Chuuk and Pohnpei impose a penalty of six months’ imprisonment for
violations. On March 6, a local taxi driver was convicted by the Supreme
Court of delivering underage girls to men who forced them into paid sex. The
Protection Project - Micronesia [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/micronesia.doc [accessed 2009] GOVERNMENT RESPONSES - There is no
legislation specifically dealing with trafficking. Other general provisions
may be applied to instances of trafficking, however. For example, the
constitution states that slavery and involuntary servitude are prohibited
except to punish crime. The removal or confinement of any child younger than
14 by force, deception, or threat without his or her parents’ consent is
prohibited. All
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