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On the other hand, a person convicted for first degree child abuse is sentenced to between ten and twenty years and is prevented from contacting his victims after his release. This is clearly a punishment much more appropriate to such brutal offences as forcing a child to sell his body. Therefore, a legal change is urgently required, so that engaging a minor in prostitution is legally recognised as child abuse.
Secondly, we need to establish special units in cities with high prostitution rates to offer juneville prostitutes a sanctuary. At the moment, when the police find underage prostitutes, they are sent to centres for the homeless or foster care. However, the personnel there is not specially trained to handle such cases, and if the pimp hasn’t been imprisoned, he will almost always make it to his victims again. So what we need is units where the victims are kept under constant supervision during the first few weeks, while specialised staff provides them with what they need: a safe home, mental support, health services, treatment for eating and psychological disorders and drug abuse, and most importantly, affection and understanding. When the children are ready, they can be sent to foster families in a different area and start school again or attend vocational college studies. This, in combination with the proper punishment of pimps, will serve to help the children that are currently involved in prostitution escape, and start over.
The final part of the solution deals with preventing any more children from entering this nightmare. It involves the training of adults in contact with young people, such as teachers, counsellors, members of children’s charities and local officials to recognise potential victims. This can be done by identifying the features common to most children becoming prostitutes. High risk groups include children of separated families when the parents are deceased, drug or alcohol addicts or mentally ill, those expelled from school, those that have been in reformatories and those that have a relative already involved in prostitution or drug dealing. When there are fears for particular children, they will be surrounded by a team of consultants to help them overcome their difficulties and thus deal with the root causes of the problem. They will receive help to restart school and where necessary will be put into foster care away from urban centres. What is urgently required for this to materialise though, is financial support from the state. This will attempt to stop the problem before it even begins.
In the past few decades, juneville prostitution has grown from being almost non-existent to the most serious form of underage sexual exploitation. Right now, more than 700,000 children are in desperate need of our help. And the way to do this is
· By changing the law so that those guilty of engaging minors in prostitution are punished as first degree child abusers.
· By establishing special housing units exclusively for child prostitutes to help them rehabilitate and
· By training counsellors to detect potential pimp victims and offer them the support needed to prevent the problem.
Today hundreds of children are going to be trapped in the nets of prostitution. Their innocence will have prematurely ended, and their childhood scarred. Until we do something about it, the question remains the same.
Whose child next?
On the other hand, a person convicted for first degree child abuse is sentenced to between ten and twenty years and is prevented from contacting his victims after his release. This is clearly a punishment much more appropriate to such brutal offences as forcing a child to sell his body. Therefore, a legal change is urgently required, so that engaging a minor in prostitution is legally recognised as child abuse.
Secondly, we need to establish special units in cities with high prostitution rates to offer juneville prostitutes a sanctuary. At the moment, when the police find underage prostitutes, they are sent to centres for the homeless or foster care. However, the personnel there is not specially trained to handle such cases, and if the pimp hasn’t been imprisoned, he will almost always make it to his victims again. So what we need is units where the victims are kept under constant supervision during the first few weeks, while specialised staff provides them with what they need: a safe home, mental support, health services, treatment for eating and psychological disorders and drug abuse, and most importantly, affection and understanding. When the children are ready, they can be sent to foster families in a different area and start school again or attend vocational college studies. This, in combination with the proper punishment of pimps, will serve to help the children that are currently involved in prostitution escape, and start over.
The final part of the solution deals with preventing any more children from entering this nightmare. It involves the training of adults in contact with young people, such as teachers, counsellors, members of children’s charities and local officials to recognise potential victims. This can be done by identifying the features common to most children becoming prostitutes. High risk groups include children of separated families when the parents are deceased, drug or alcohol addicts or mentally ill, those expelled from school, those that have been in reformatories and those that have a relative already involved in prostitution or drug dealing. When there are fears for particular children, they will be surrounded by a team of consultants to help them overcome their difficulties and thus deal with the root causes of the problem. They will receive help to restart school and where necessary will be put into foster care away from urban centres. What is urgently required for this to materialise though, is financial support from the state. This will attempt to stop the problem before it even begins.
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