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CHILD PROSTITUTION |
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The international scene |
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FACTS FROM ANDY BUTCHERS HEARTRENDING BOOK STREET CHILDREN (ISBN 1-8666024-028-3) Nelson Word Publishing Limited. |
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An estimated 100 million children spend their days on the city streets around the world. |
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10 million of these are totally on their own, uncared for and unprotected |
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A U.K survey of young runaways in 1995 revealed that 1 in 7 had sold sex for money |
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More than 25% had be physically or sexually abused while on the street |
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86% of street children in New York have been involved in prostitution sometime |
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Uncared for and unloved, a life of petty crime and prostitution to survive |
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These are the bare facts about the children who live and die on the streets of the world. Add to them, the thousands who leave home's and family or secure accommodation, to ply their bodies nightly for money, not just to survive physically, but because already they feel broken, unloved, soiled and dirty, through the ordeal of sexual abuse as youngsters. What have they to lose, discarded like flotsam , amidst an uncaring and unfriendly society. |
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Children as young as 11 are to be found on the streets of the United Kingdom , and whilst not the norm, together with the ready availability of drugs, child prostitutes are getting younger, in order that they may meet the needs of drug habits. How can we be complacent because it is not just the poor affected, but children drawn from all sides of society. |
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Sex tourism has raised its ugly head, as a feature in easier and cheaper travel of this age. Children in poorer countries have been exploited by unscrupulous men trading in their bodies. Countries like Thailand, the Philippines and Sri Lanka are known area's, but Eastern Europe and Russia have become hunting grounds for some. |
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We know from the Bible that every one of these children and the way they have been treated, will have to be accounted and paid for on some terrible judgement day. Children are especially valued by God and Jesus Christ emphasised that whilst on earth the last time. |
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It will not only be the abusers who will have to give an account,
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also you Christian will be asked what you did about it, because you knew. |
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Start now by supporting the Daniel Trust in prayer |
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Daniel Trust Ministries, LA13 0RU, United Kingdom |
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