Child Sexual Exploitation

Child Sexual Exploitation

Introduction

The commercial sexual exploitation of children is a major public health problem in the United States and worldwide. It has been estimated that approximately 244,000 U.S. children are at risk for commercial sexual exploitation each year.(Estes & Weiner, 2002) In a recent study, Edwards and colleagues found that among a nationally representative sample of more than 13,000 U.S. adolescents, 3.5% admitted to exchanging sex for money or drugs.(Edwards, Iritani, & Hallfors, 2006). Many sexual exploitation of children victims will present for medical care at some point during their period of exploitation, often for treatment of acute conditions.

Definition

Commercial sexual exploitation of children occurs when a person induces a minor to engage in a sex act in exchange for remuneration in the form of money, food, shelter or other valued entity. Types of sexual exploitation include:

  • Child prostitution, which typically refers to destitute youth who are provided food, clothing,
    shelter or other survival needs in exchange for sex (may also be referred to as, “survival sex” ). There is no external financial gain to the person who provides the shelter, etc to the victim.
  • Pornography
  • The trafficking of children and adolescents for a commercial sex act(s). The term “commercial sex act” means any sex act on account of which anything of value is given to or received by any person (in the United States, Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, 2000).
  • Child sex tourism (customers travel to a site to engage in commercial sex acts with minors
    (United States Department of State, 2006 and 2007).
  • The use of children in sexually oriented businesses (public or private.) (International Labor
    Organization).

The term `severe forms of trafficking in persons’ means:

  • Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or
  • The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or
    services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to
    involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery (Victims of Trafficking and Violence
    Protection Act, 2000) (Also see Appendix A for United Nations definition of trafficking in
    persons)

Scope

This section covers the following:

  • A Brief History of Child Sexual Exploitation
  • Commercial Sexploitation of Children in Advertising
  • Child Sexual Exploitation From a Global Perspective
  • Rape in Southeast Asia
  • The Commercial Exploitation of Children in the United States

PORNOGRAPHY

This section covers the following:

  • Resources of the Exploited Child Unit at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
  • Analysis of Child Pornography
  • Child Sexual Abuse Images and Paraphilias
  • Abusive Images of Children and the Internet
  • Sexual Offender Assessments

PROSTITUTED CHILDREN AND YOUTH

This section covers the following:

  • Commercial Exploitation of Children
  • Juvenile Prostitution and Sexual Exploitation
  • Medical Care of the Children
  • Support of Juvenile Prostitute Victims

ONLINE SOLICITATION

This section covers the following:

  • Online Victimization of the Youth
  • Family Counseling
  • Safe Use of the Internet
  • The Use of the Internet for Child Sexual Exploitation

INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION

This section covers the following:

  • Acquaintance Child Molesters
  • Postal Service Investigations
  • Victim Identification Program
  • Prosecutorial Issues in the Child Pornography Arena
  • Judicial Issues and the Derailment of Girls and Women to the Criminal Justice System
  • Juvenile Prostitution and Incarcerated Pedophiles
  • Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation
  • The Role of INTERPOL
  • Investigation and Prosecution of the Prostitution of Children
  • The EnCase Computer Forensic Software and Its Legal Validation
  • Travelers for Sexual Exploitation
  • Groups That Promote Child Sexual Exploitation
  • Involuntary Servitude and Slavery
  • Organized Crime and Obscenity

PREVENTIONS

This section covers the following:

  • Child Protection Communities
  • Investigation
  • Prosecution
  • Preventing the Sexual Exploitation of Children in Tourism

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