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| Child Prostitution - South Africa |
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Dec 1998
Child prostitution is rife in South Africa.
It's a means of survival for impoverished
township kids.
Standing at the side of the road two young
girls pass time playing like children, until
their pimp tells them to shut-up. Their
friend 14 year-old Lindy, lifts her top to
let a potential client inspect her wares.
"They like to suck them because I'm young"
she says. Following a girl on a job we
confront her white client. His flies undone,
he denies he knew how old she was and demands
his money back. A passer-by comes to help him
out. "He was just following a call of
nature," he says. Nobody knows how many
children are working the streets. They stay
here because of poverty, because there is no
home to go back to and prostitution is all
they can do to survive. Local police have
given-up chasing the clients; "If you catch
these people they won't give evidence
[against clients] because tomorrow they will
be back on the street." Instead social
workers try to take the children into homes.
The numbers they can help though is small,
and most turn back to prostitution.
Tags : Child Prostitution Africa Poverty Childhood journeyman pictures |
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Affichage : 319280
Durée : 1402 s |
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