2 Million Children Sexually Exploited in Latin America, Says Women's Coalition Marguerite Cawley - InSight
go to original March 26, 2013

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Approximately two million children and adolescents are currently sexually exploited in Latin America, according to an anti-sex trafficking coalition, highlighting the potential scale of a transnational crime that all too often goes unpunished.

Ecuador’s country head of the Latin American Coalition Against Trafficking Women - Latin America and the Caribbean (CATW-LAC), Rocio Rosero, attributed this alarming statistic in part to trafficking networks that trick children into prostitution in other countries, reported EFE.

According to the coalition leader, available statistics don’t show the full scope of the problem because information is "under-recorded." Rosero added the dual problems of prostitution and sexual exploitation are fuelled by sexist Latin American "machismo," culture and poverty.

Rosero made the comments at the launch of "Tu Plata Maltrata" (Your Money Mistreats), a Quito program that works to raise awareness of the crime of sexual exploitation. In Ecuador, 5,000 children are sexually exploited, she said, with many of them sent abroad as prostitutes.

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