hollywoodtone.blogspot.com World Cup in Brazil draws attention to rampant child prostitution
hollywoodtone.blogspot.com World Cup in Brazil draws attention to rampant child prostitution
Recife - The World Cup will be hosted in Brazil this year, bringing a boost to the nation’s economy. However, some of the money changing hands will go to pay the more than 500,000 child prostitutes servicing the tourists and locals attending the matches.
Prostitution is a legal profession in Brazil for those over the age of consent. The age of consent in the country is 14. In Brazil, even the age of consent is a gray area. In 2012 the Brazilian Supreme Court acquitted a man of raping three 12-year-old girls because the girls were allegedly sex workers. In response to the verdict, Atila Roque, Executive Director at Amnesty International in Brazil said
According to a UN organization there were roughly 100,000 child sex workers in Brazil in 2001. Now Brazil’s own National Forum for the Prevention of Child Labor puts the number at five times the UN estimate. As the number climbs, law enforcement’s priority was developing a special 10,000-strong detachment of riot police to deal with possible protests at the World Cup. The money spent on refurbishing the stadiums is another point of tension among those wishing to devote more resources to fighting child prostitution. The total cost by the last reported budget will be around $13.8 billion dollars to refurbish and build the stadiums for the month long event.
Rape is never the fault of the victim. This shocking ruling effectively gives a green light to rapists and if it prevails could dissuade other survivors of sexual abuse from reporting these crimes,Thiago, a former pimp in Brazil, told Time magazine that clients would be charged around sixty dollars to have sex with a child. He stated that after he would take his half and then deduct for the alcohol, drugs, and cosmetics the girls would never see that much, saying
Realistically, the girl would get about a quarter of what the client paid,He also explained the deductions
Alcohol and drugs would help the girls to deal with everything. They wouldn’t feel anything anymore. They’d just be objects.Thiago’s estimate means that on average the children receive about $15 per customer. Tickets to the World Cup Finals are just under $1000. In some hotels serving the areas where the games will be held, it is possible to request a “menu” of girls. Groups combating child prostitution report they have found children as young as eight working the streets of Recife, a city known for its sex tourism. Prostitutes of all ages are attracted to the big wallets of the tourists coming to town for the games. The Association of Prostitutes of the city of Belo Horizonte is expecting its members to make enough money to justify them learning a new language, and is offering free English lessons to those in the sex industry.
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Rio de Janeiro's massive Maracana Stadium will host the 2014 World Cup Final. The Maracana has been overhauled and upgraded for the 2014 soccer World Cup.
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According to a UN organization there were roughly 100,000 child sex workers in Brazil in 2001. Now Brazil’s own National Forum for the Prevention of Child Labor puts the number at five times the UN estimate. As the number climbs, law enforcement’s priority was developing a special 10,000-strong detachment of riot police to deal with possible protests at the World Cup. The money spent on refurbishing the stadiums is another point of tension among those wishing to devote more resources to fighting child prostitution. The total cost by the last reported budget will be around $13.8 billion dollars to refurbish and build the stadiums for the month long event.
hollywoodtone.blogspot.com World Cup in Brazil draws attention to rampant child prostitution