Child trafficking in eastern Europe: A trade in human misery

[Karmadillo]

Just a little bump on the road on the way to the global market utopia. Very soon, maybe tomorrow, the acceleration of environmental destruction will end, wealth inequality will all but disappear, and it will be much, much more difficult to find a child with which to have sex. Honest. Really. Stay the course. All is well. Honest.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/oct2003/traf-o25.shtml

Each year, some 1.2 million children are trafficked worldwide, according to the United Nations. The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe estimates that 200,000 individuals are trafficked annually from eastern Europe, a significant proportion being children. Some become unpaid domestic servants, or work in sweatshops, but many more—boys, girls, teenagers—are forced into prostitution and crime.

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Romanian filmmaker Liviu Tipurita returned to Bucharest, where he met up with 15-year-old Laurentiu, who has lived on the streets for most of his life. Three years earlier, Tipurita had filmed the boy living in a cardboard box with only a sweatshirt to wear. Laurentiu and his friends have a precarious existence. Of the little money they earn, mainly from begging and selling sex, much is spent fuelling their addiction to sniffing glue.

The documentary exposed how Western pedophiles were coming to Romania posing as tourists, and were then procuring boys for underage sex. “Tom,” from Britain, had originally come to Bucharest in the aftermath of the collapse of the Ceausescu regime to work in an orphanage. Using hidden cameras, Tom was shown discussing his Internet business—a web site offering to introduce men to Romanian boys. His clients came from throughout western Europe—Britain, Holland, Switzerland. He boasted that he had even supplied boys to a German judge.

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Thousands of eastern European children and teenagers are being reduced to commodities in a trade in human misery. They are bought and sold like chattels to satisfy perverted sexual appetites, to provide slave labour, or, worst of all, to be “harvested” for their organs and body parts so that the rich and their children can live at their expense.

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[La_Serpiente]

1. I am happy that

George Soros has created huge charities over there.

[izzie]

2. Sounds fike a Dickens story. Things never change I swear.

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[TreasonousBastard]

3. I have heard so much...

about importing sex slaves from the desperately poor old Soviet countries, including Russia, and it is sickening.

Harvesting organs is a new one, and I have my suspicions about how tue it is, but what gets me about this one is the glue addiction.

Sniffing glue?

That is pathetic.

[pretzel4gore]

4. 23 years ago

i was a sailor on a ship that docked in santos, brazil: what was striking was this street where there were lotsa bars/disco's etc....that catered to merchant seamen. while getting drunk in one bar i noticed how huge crowd of men were hanging around on the sidewalk across the street....the street was a mile long, and same thing the whole length. Every once in while girls would go across street from bars and visit with what appeared to be husbands or fathers etc....and I realized that was it. The men and boys/children were unemployed/poor and were connected to the girls selling their asses ...
i gave away my money and went back to the ship.
Also, i was told a few of the guys went to a brothel or something where the 'girls' were prepuberty (10 years old about)...the tiny transvestites wore bikinis made outta plastic bags

[Clete]

5. This is a terrible problem.

It's also happening in the US with these children being brought to the USA for sex. There doesn't seem to be a big effort to stop this trafficking although the sex rings are sometimes exposed, the effort seems to be hit and miss.

No child should be unprotected by the law. Yet, programs to deal with many of these throw away children are systematically being cut from funding by our wonderful fat white men's club in Washington.

[Armstead]

6. kick

[Karmadillo]

7. Kick

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