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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 : 244896
Durée : 1402 s |
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