C S E C The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to
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and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in 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. HELP for Victims New Zealand Police Emergency: 111 Non-emergency: station numbers can
be found at: http://www.police.govt.nz/district/phonebook.html ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Police warn parents
of teens' safety ONE News/Newstalk ZB, January 25, 2008 tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1557046 [accessed 26 June
2011] tvnz.co.nz/content/1557046/2591764.xhtml [accessed 13
November 2016] Police who led a
crackdown on underage prostitution in South Auckland want parents and
caregivers of young teenagers to take greater responsibility for the safety
of their children. Counties Manukau Police arrested 25 people during an operation focussed on under-aged prostitution in South Auckland.
Sixteen children - some as young as 13 - were taken off the streets by police
and either returned to their families or placed in the care of Child Youth
and Family. But during the operation,
police discovered some of the same girls working back on the streets within
days of initially being removed. They
want caregivers to take a greater interest in their children's
wellbeing. "A strong starting
point would be parents and caregivers taking more interest in the safety and
wellbeing of their children before it is too late for these young persons
lives to be ruined by this criminal activity" Detective Senior Sergeant Pizzini says. He
says many of the teenagers were being solicited by gangs, and were being
given methamphetamine in return for sexual favours. ***
ARCHIVES *** Runaways
- Where To Turn For Help Before You Are Homeless
– 0800 376-633 Rebeccas Community -- This
is for anyone aged up to 13 years old who is thinking about running away www.homeless.org.au/runaways.htm [accessed 26 June
2011] Here are the best
phone numbers to call …They are Confidential - which means they won't tell
anyone about your call unless you want them to talk to somebody for you, or
you are in danger. They are open 24
Hours - it doesn't matter what time you call.
In ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] Hannah Darnton, ECPAT International, 2012 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/a4a_v2_eap_newzealand.pdf [accessed 6
September 2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in New
Zealand. The report looks at protection mechanisms, responses, preventive
measures, child and youth participation in fighting SEC, and makes
recommendations for action against SEC. 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/
new-zealand/ [accessed 6
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law provides that any person who has a sexual
connection with a person younger than age 16 is liable to a maximum prison
sentence of 10 years. Further, the law makes it an offense punishable by
seven years’ imprisonment to assist a person younger than 18 in providing
commercial sexual services; to receive earnings from commercial sexual
services provided by a person younger than 18; or to contract for commercial
sexual services from, or be a client of, a person younger than 18. The law
also makes it an offense to traffic in persons younger than 18 for sexual
exploitation or for forced labor. The courts may prosecute citizens who
commit child sex offenses overseas. Government
statistics reported 422 convictions in 2018-19 for sexual offenses against
children younger than age 16, approximately the same number as a decade
before. The law prohibits
child pornography and provides for a maximum 14 years’ imprisonment, as well
as maximum individual and corporate fines of NZ$200,000 ($129,000) if a
person produces, imports, supplies, distributes,
possesses for supply, displays, or exhibits an objectionable publication. The
Department of Internal Affairs Censorship Compliance Unit polices images of
child sex abuse on the internet and prosecutes offenders. Concluding Observations
of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 3 October 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/newzealand2003.html [accessed 4 March 2011] [51] The Committee
notes that the State party has signed but not ratified the Optional Protocol
to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child
prostitution and child pornography. Rescuing the Child
Prostitute, Whose Responsibility? Wisdom Dzidedi Donkor, Public Agenda allafrica.com/stories/200711051563.html [partially accessed
19 September 2011 - access restricted] RESEARCH FINDINGS - ECPAT New Zealand
and Stop Demand Foundation have also cited in a report "The Nature and
Extent of the Sex Industry in Flawed Prostitution
Law Results in Mother ‘Trading’ 16 y/o Daughter Family First, 28
September 2007 www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0709/S00398.htm [accessed 26 June
2011] Family First is disgusted
with the actions of a mother who organised a prostitution ‘transaction’ between her 16 year old
daughter and a man, but say that this is an expected outcome of a flawed
Act. “Politicians who voted for this
ideologically flawed bill which decriminalized prostitution should hang their
heads in shame, along with this mother,” says Bob McCoskrie,
National Director of Family First NZ. Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International,
November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13
September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – NEW ZEALAND – Although the Government of New Zealand said that there
is no significant problem of CSEC in the country, anecdotal evidence shows
that the problem exists especially in southern Auckland. In Gaps In Stocktake Of Child Exploitation Stop Demand, 1 June
2006 www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0606/S00001.htm [accessed 26 June
2011] A Stocktake on Sex case deps hearing adjourned www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=77486 [Last access date
unavailable] The Child Prostitution Confirmed In Confidential Papers The Press, freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1154050/posts [accessed 26 June
2011] Call For Police To Target Child Prostitution United Future NZ
Party, 24 June 2005 www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00591.htm [accessed 26 June
2011] United Future
leader Peter Dunne today called on the police in each of The effective
abolition of child labour [PDF] International Labour
Organization ILO, 1-1-2002 [accessed 26 June
2011] [p.437] As with every
other area of commercial sexual exploitation of children, estimating the true
nature and extent of child prostitution in New Zealand is very difficult due to
the clandestine nature of the activity. However, research and anecdotal
evidence suggest that child prostitution is a growing problem in Protecting Our
Innocence - Ministry of Justice,
February 2002 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 26 June
2011] A comprehensive
examination of commercial sexual exploitation of children in The
Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/zealand.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING
-
Research and anecdotal evidence suggest that child prostitution is a growing
problem in ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** ECPAT Global
Monitoring Report on the status of action against commercial exploitation of
children - NEW ZEALAND [PDF] ECPAT International,
2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/EAP/Global_Monitoring_Report-NEWZEALAND.pdf [accessed 26 June
2011] The exact scale and
nature of the prostitution of children in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61621.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Commercial sexual exploitation of children was a problem. Under the
Prostitution Reform Act, it is illegal to use a person under 18 years of age
in prostitution. A study by the PLRC completed in April 2004 estimated that
approximately 200 young persons under the age of 18 were working as
prostitutes. During the year 3 brothel operators and 1 client were prosecuted
for the use of persons under age 18 in prostitution. The client and two of
the brothel operators were convicted, and one operator was awaiting trial at
year's end. The government worked with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
to address trafficking in children and provided funding for NGO outreach
programs in All
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