Child+Sex+Trafficking

Facts:
Country: Thailand Cause: poverty, lack of prostitutes, tourism More Prone: your'e a child, your legal status does not include being a citizen, economic status

Thailand is more tolerant of human trafficking due to: -Police corruption due to involvement in trafficking -lack of govermental monitoring -lack on ability to identify cases and victims -lack of knowledge about trafficking (humantrafficking.org)

~over 80,000 women and children have been sold into sex trafficking in Thailand since 1990. (humantrafficking.org) ~Thailand imports its victims (mostly women) from Russia, Poland, Czech and Slovaki, South America, Yugoslavia (humantrafficking.org) ~Thailand exports to European regions (humantrafficking.org) ~girls, most under 18 are sold into brothels (humantrafficking.org) ~100's of children are lured from their own villages with manipulated ideas of "opportunity" (Movie-58) ~Some parents even sell their own children for money. The children most times don't know what they're about to live with. (Movie-58) ~many are kidnapped (mostly girls) and drugged and put into brothels. (The Evil Behind the Smiles) ~men "buy their virginity" (The Evil Behind the Smiles) ~they're abused if they resist (The Evil Behind the Smiles) ~kept underground to muffle screams (The Evil Behind the Smiles) ~torture chambers ~increases AIDS