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Child Prostitution Rampant at Brazil Truck
Stops
RIO DE JANEIRO – A study by Brazil’s highway
police identified at least 1,819 places
where little girls and teens offer sexual
services to truck drivers, O Estado de Sao
Paulo newspaper reported on Tuesday.
On average, truckers and other drivers can
find a spot with underage prostitutes every
26.7 kilometers (166 miles) along the
Brazilian highways, according to the police
report.
The study found that in some places minors
were offering sex for as little as 2 reais
($1.10) to be able to buy crack.
The police considered as likely places for
child prostitution all the gas stations,
bars, restaurants and night spots along the
highways, the kind establishments where
minors have already been caught offering
sexual services.
The map of likely places was prepared in
association with the International Labor
Organization.
Police now propose to use the study to
define the most likely spots and increase
oversight, but the results will not be made
public.
“We believed that identifying the spots
would stop crimes from being committed, but
we found that it only causes a migration to
other places,” the president of the Human
Rights Commission of the Federal Highway
Police in Sao Paolo, Waldiwilson dos Santos,
said.
“Now we’re going to maintain secrecy so as
not to undermine our operations,” he said.
EFE
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