MEXICO FACTS ON PROSTITUTION

The United Nations now lists Mexico as the number one center for the supply of young children to North America. Most are sold to rich, childless couples unwilling to wait for bona fide adoption agencies to provide them with a child. The majority are sent to international pedophile organizations. Many times the children are snatched while on errands for their parents. Often they are drugged and raped. Most of the children over 12 end up as prostitutes. Hector Ramirez, a former deputy, or Mexican Member of Parliament, stated that "many of the state and city authorities [are] doing absolutely nothing to stop what is going on." (Allan Hall, The Scotsman, 25 August 1998)........

The majority of the homeless girls assisted by Casa Alianza programs in Mexico are victims of prostitution. ("The Situation of Street Children in Latin America," Bruce Harris, Executive Director, Latin American Programmes, Casa Alianza/Covenant House Latin America, 9 October 1997)

Mexico has no laws defining or sanctioning child prostitution and pornography as criminal activity. (Diego Cevallos, "Sterile at Age 12, AIDS at 14," IPS, 10 February 1998)

Mexico is one of the favored destinations of pedophile sex tourists from Europe and the United States. ("Global law to punish sex tourists sought by Britain and EU," The Indian Express, 21 November 1997

An estimated 5,000 children are currently involved in prostitution, pornography and sex-tourism in Mexico. Nearly 100 children and teenagers a month fall into the hands of the child prostitution networks which are mafias or organized crime syndicates. (Elena Azola, Diego Cevallos, "Sterile at Age 12, AIDS at 14," IPS, 10 February 1998)

In 1996 U.S. Postal Service announced that Mexico City was one of the leading producers of child pornography videos. (Diego Cevallos, "Sterile at Age 12, AIDS at 14," IPS, 10 February 1998)

From June 1994-early January 1998, 45 females have been sequestered, wounded, tortured, raped, or murdered by military and paramilitary fighting in Chiapas. (Synopsis by Gloria Huretas de la Doble Jornada, 11 January 1998, Masiosare, 28 December 1997, the Information Service of Centro Agustin Pro Juarez & testimonies collected from women of San Cristobal"Chiapas: The Silenced Death, Geometric increments of violence against women in Chiapas")

Two Mexican Federal police officers have been jailed for the rape of a fourteen-year-old street girl, in a case pursued by Casa Alianza on behalf of the young girl, with the support of the Public Ministry. A recent court ruling, by the 12th Penal Judge of Mexico City, sentenced officer Perez Davila to eleven years imprisonment and officer Sanchez Ramirez to nine years and six months imprisonment. "In all too few cases these public figures are arrested and punished for their crimes. This is a sad reminder that the sexual abuse of children continues, but it is good to see that at times justice can prevail," said Bruce Harris the Regional Director of Casa Alianza in Latin America. ("Two Mexican Federal Police Officers Jailed for Raping Street Child," Press Release, Casa Alianza, 17 August 1998) The Comfort Women : Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War

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