Child Sex Boom Fueled By Global Recession

GlobalPost:

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Narisaraporn Asipong, a matronly social worker at the "Mercy Center" shelter met 8-year-old Niran (a pseudonym) five years ago in Klong Toey, Bangkok's largest concentration of slum communities.

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[LyssaBarnes]

This is why I have issue with the conservative churches that speak out against abortion. Where is their voice on women's and children's rights? If anything, this should be the biggest noise they make.

No human being should be subject to slavery of any kind, especially sexual slavery. When one comes to know the Divine, you realize that all such actions are an abomination.

[harriettubman]

Look at the nasty letters Oprah received after doing a show about catching pedophiles. They were angry with her for doing a show against them. Also, law enforcement on her show said they just can't keep up. The police officer's computer was riddled with locations of pedophiles nationwide. This is sick, sick, sick, sick and must never be tolerated in our society.

[inorbit]

My first concern when I read about this is the children, of course, and how this affects them.

But the other thought that I have is - Why are there so many sick adults out there who want to have sex with children????

Why????

Until we get to the bottom of this we are not going to be able to end this abuse of children.

[coveark]

My guestion also..............

[KIVPossum]

We went to Thailand on vacation and I was amazed at the number of western men in their 40s and 50s traveling alone. Sure some wanted to go to experience the history or culture, but had a nagging thought that most were there for the sex industry.

[harriettubman]

You hit the nail on the head with those men or Bill O'Reilly was talking about traveling over there too. My first thought was the adult s*x industry for him. Adults are into it too.

[ibsteve2u]

A consequence of increasing inequality.

What's worse, is that our corporations' - our wealthy few's - desire to get richer FASTER while simultaneously hammering labor in America HARDER lead to the offshoring of our industry at far too fast a pace for local markets to emerge for those goods.

So agrarian societies were replaced with manufacturing societies...and when the consequences of inequitable free trade, deregulation, and trickle-down economics began unfolding here, those emerging economies were left with no market - and no recourse.

The "free traders" who seek to profit from the inequities in international trade are the entire world's worst enemies.

[harriettubman]

As long as there are places like this where children have no voice and adults don't protect them there will ALWAYS be a massive pe*ophile network across the world. Look at all these abducted kids. Where are they?

I remember growing up seeing the red hed boy called Johnny Gosh. He was on buses, milk cartons, ads, you name it. He was 12 when he was abducted from his newspaper route. Years later he called his mother and said he had been taken into a child s*x ring. The public was absorbed into that story but never given full details.

Adults who have s*x with children deserve life in prison and/or de*th, nothing short of that!!

[CigarGod]

Of the 350,000 or so abducted in the usa, all but 3 - 4,000 are taken by their parents in a dispute.
I support the work of the center for missing and exploited children, but they should be a bit more honest about this.

[Rog49Thomas]

And folks out there scoff when told that the free market always has a solution.

[CigarGod]

I would be far more supportive of Dones, extra-judicial killings and assassins being used on this problem, than how they are used in Afghanistan.

[Rog49Thomas]

Dangerous liberal that I am, I'd prefer a bit of social justice so folks wouldn't be in the position of having to do this or thinking that they have to.

What's sad (a bit of deliberate understatement) is the insatiable greed of the kleptocracy - unable to sleep because some poor guy somewhere has two nickels in his pocket instead of one.

I recall one foreign billionaire explaining to me how his wise labor management practices enabled him to save $20 per month per employee and keep union membership down at the same time. He hired workers for simple tasks and then fired them within the 90 day probationary period.

This had no discernible impact on this guy's life. But the thought of that extra nickel in his pocket apparently comforted his soul greatly.