The men deny 51 charges including rape, arranging child prostitution and trafficking relating to girls aged between 11 and 15 from 2004 to 2012.
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The minors have been charged with child prostitution or are more likely to be arrested for related offenses, such as repeatedly running away or skipping school.
Despite those figures, the FBI and child advocates said child prostitution continues to be a serious problem and they called on the public to realize it can happen in any town and neighborhood.
Bassam Karrar was found guilty of two counts of rape, one count of conspiracy to rape a child, one count of rape of a child, one count of child prostitution, one count of trafficking and one count of conspiracy to rape.
Child prostitution in Bangkok brothels, rape and murder of Vietnamese boat people on the high seas, drug trafficking by cabinet ministers and corruption on a colossal scale--all come from the dark side of Thailand's complex society, where gentle Buddhism cohabits with some fearsome evil spirits.
Among the handful of suspects arrested in the past few years, only one has served more than a few months in prison. (He was released after a year and still works in Phnom Penh as a doctor.) "Cambodia is known as a place where it's easy, " says Olivier Perrais, regional director of End Child Prostitution and Trafficking.
Mohammed Karrar was found guilty of two counts of conspiracy to rape, three counts of rape of a child, one count of using an instrument to procure miscarriage, two counts of trafficking, one count of assault of a child by penetration, one count of child prostitution, one count of rape and one count of supplying a class A drug.
The report, which covered 53 African nations, said children were the biggest victims, describing how they had been forced into slavery, recruited as child soldiers or sold into prostitution.
The U.N. high commissioner for refugees reports that some Iraqi women are resorting to prostitution to support their families and child labor is becoming an increasing problem.
While all of you are so concerned about underage persons in prostitution, you should know that the majority of victims of child sexual exploitation are not found on street corners or through internet ads.
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