Child Sex Tourism

What Is Child Sex Tourism?

Each year, more than one million children are exploited in the global commercial sex trade. Child sex tourism (CST) involves people who travel from their own country to another and engage in commercial sex acts with children.

Child Sex Tourism is a shameful assault on the dignity of children and a form of violent child abuse. The sexual exploitation of children has devastating consequences. Tourists engaging in Child Sex Tourism often travel to developing countries looking for anonymity and the availability of children in prostitution. The crime is typically fuelled by weak law enforcement, corruption, the Internet, ease of travel, and poverty. These sexual offenders come from all socio-economic backgrounds and may hold positions of trust.

The Global Response

Over the last five years, there has been an increase in the prosecution of child sex tourism offences. At least 32 countries have extraterritorial laws that allow the prosecution of their citizens for Child Sex Tourism crimes committed abroad. In response to the grotesque phenomenon, NGOs, the tourism industry, and governments have begun to address the issue. The World Tourism Organization (WTO) established a task force to combat Child Sex Tourism. The WTO, the NGO End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes

 ( ECPAT ), and Nordic tour operators created a global Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism in 1999. As of March 2005, 100 travel companies from 18 countries had signed the code. [See www.thecode.org]

  Read more on Child Sex Tourism at:  ECPAT International

Get Educated and Get Safe

"Because they are upstairs and they're quiet doesn't mean they're safe.  They're no more safe upstairs on the Internet than they are out in the park at 2 O'Clock in the morning"

MA State Police Internet Crimes Taskforce

Who are your kids chatting to online?

Parental Control Software

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