Aussies target Thai sex trafficking

Protecting children is everyone's reponsibility

Many children in sex trade in Thailand are from neighboring poor countries like Mynamar. Boys and girls as young as 7 are abducted, bought and sold into the sex trade by sometimes their own improvised families. 30-40,000 children have been consistently quoted as working in sex tourism and sex entertainment but these are conservative figures. Chinese and Arab men especially prefer to have sex with virgins and young children believing that they will not catch HIV/AIDs and invigorate their manhood.

Sex trafficking of young children is real

HI Alan, I have recently come from Cambodia after spending time with girls who were as young as 3 and have been rescued out of the brothels there. The reason I became interested in sex trafficking was after living in Phuket and witness some of the young girls there. That was the catalyst for me to delve into trafficking in Sth East Asia!! These young girls have been sold by their parents or carers, then raped repeatedly and threatened with death, starvation and torture if they dont comply.

Mr

Alan: If you are serious, please provide an email address and I will provide contact information of someone who can show you. We have seen the photos and videos of the sex trade there provided by an American social worker we sponsor who works with this group of persons. Her NGO agency buys the girls out of the sex trade and rehabilitates them. The Social worker accompanied one of the young women interviewed to Australia.

Mr

If the Australian government is serious about the sex trade they should have joint undercover operations with the foreign police and catch these child abusers in "honey traps". The AFP had a joint operation which caught the "Bali Nine" and so it is not too hard to do the same to sex tourists.

Thanks.

Thanks, SBS, for bringing this to our attention. Hopefully many people will repond as I have and donate on a monthly basis in support of this cause.

Mr

I live and work on Phuket as a journalist and we seldom hear of under-age people working in the sex industry here. I can recall one case in the past five years, and that certainly did not involve 13 or 14-year-olds. Yet NGOs repeat this claim like some kind of mantra. Say it often enough, and it must be true. If there is evidence, please supply it to us. We'd be happy to report it and expose it. Whenever this claim is made, NGOs in the past have failed to support their claim.