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Article: Children in well-off nations dabbling in prostitution for extra cash
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- April 28, 2000
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Children in well-off nations dabbling in prostitution for extra
cash, activists say
By J.L. HAZELTON
Associated Press
Friday, April 28, 2000
Tokyo -- Children in prosperous countries are turning to the sex
trade just to earn a little extra cash, rather than out of the dire
poverty that traditionally drives the business, activists said
Thursday.
"It's no longer just the children who need to live who go into
it," said Ofelia Calcetas-Santos, the U.N. rapporteur on the sale of
children, child prostitution and pornography. "This is a departure
from what we traditionally know."
More research is needed to pin down numbers and to see how recent
a development this is, Calcetas-Santos said in an ...