HONDURAS WOMENS ISSUES
As many as 100 Honduran children have been smuggled overland into Canada from Honduras, by a professional drug ring trafficking children to Vancouver.
The Honduran smugglers pay the childrens’ transportation costs and help them across the Canadian border.
Once in Vancouver, the traffickers put the children in apartments, help them file refugee claims and sign up for welfare.
In return, the children are turned out on the street as indentured drug dealers.
(Adrienne Turner, "Drug ring lures kids as dealers: Hondurans as young as 11 deal crack in Vancouver," Ottawa Citizen, 20 July 1998)........
An American sex tourist was sentenced to ten years in jail in Honduras for raping two Honduran boys.
Daniel Gary Rounds was arrested in La Ceiba, a port town known as a center for sexual exploitation of children by foreigners, in August 1996.
("American Sex Tourist in Honduras Jailed for Raping Two Little Boys," Casa Alianza, 22 September 1998)
Five Honduran boys to testify against an American sex tourist.
The boys will travel to Florida to testify to the sexual abuse they received from Marvin Hersh, a Florida University professor jailed for sexual abuse of children in Honduras, and for the trafficking of one Honduran teenage boy to Florida.
One boy was approached by Hersh’s representatives and reportedly offered money if he would refuse to testify.
("Five Honduran Boys to Testify in Florida Case Against American Pedophile," Casa Alianza, 22 September 1998)
Honduran girls, 13 and 14 year olds, were trafficked by organized crime groups in central America from the cities of Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula and El Progreso under false pretenses, such as job offerings and scholarships and sold to brothels in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico.
(Interpol, "More Honduran Girls Prostituted," Reuters, 28 February 1998)
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