ROMANIA WOMENS ISSUES
Trafficking in women from and to Romania is widespread.
Recent cases suggest there are trafficking routes between Romania, Turkey, Cyprus and Thailand.
("International Workshop on Trafficking in Women in Central and Eastern Europe, Budapest," IOM, 4-5 October 1997)
There are approximately 2,000 homeless children in Romania.
Many of them are forced to accept money for sex to survive.
AIDS is an increasing problem.
(Harold Briley, "Bitter winter for Romania’s street children," BBC, 2 January 1998)........
A Bucharest court has sentenced Michael Taylor, a Church of England priest, to 2-1/2 years in jail (less than the maximum of 7) on charges of having unlawful sex with a 14-year-old Romanian boy.
("Romania court jails British priest on sex charges," Reuters, 9 July 1998)
3 Romanians and 5 foreign men from England, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the United States were arrested between October 1996 and August 1997 for unlawful sex with underage boys.
Only the Austrian was sentenced to one year in prison.
But the sentence was suspended and he was expelled.
("Romania holds British child sex suspect," Reuters, 7 August 1997)
Pornography, child prostitution and trafficking in minors have become rampant since the 1989 anti-communist revolt ended its’ strict social controls.
("Romania holds British child sex suspect," Reuters, 7 August 1997)
5% of the homeless children in Romania are in prostitution.
The main railway station in Bucharest is a main area for children in prostitution.
Romanian police are increasingly arresting foreign pedophiles.
Homeless children in Romania have increasingly been trafficked under false pretenses and forced into prostitution in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany and Amsterdam, Holland.
(Save the Children study, Albert Clack, "Romania: Life on the streets," http://www.foreignwire.com/abuse.html, 1998)
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