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Article: Poor children targets of sex exploitation.
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- November 22, 1996
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Rosario Baluyot was born in Manila, the Philippines, the youngest of eight children. She died at age 12, the victim of a European sex exploiter. Like other children without families, she became a street child when she was 8 years old, gravitating to the U.S. Naval base at Subic Bay, where there were about 1.2 million children under age 16 trying to scrape by.
She was picked up one night by Heinrich Stefan Ritter, an Austrian physician. Sex with minors is illegal in his country, so he traveled to the Philippines to find what he wanted. He invited her to his hotel room, promising her money and food. There he had sex with her and then forcibly inserted a vibrator ...