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Children in the sex trade - and, in particular, as their involvement as prostitutes - is something that we don't hear about often. Newspapers, television, and radio stop it from coming on centre stage for one reason - because it makes people uncomfortable. And why wouldn't it? Just the mere suggestion of such things existing and happening will make most people reel in disgust. And the media, with their postage-stamp sized coverage and off-hand comments …

…the ordinary children and the fouled youngsters. In the end, the winners of the game are not the prostitutes themselves nor the people who support the trade with their money, but the pimps and pornographers who exploit both sides to their own personal gain. While the lives of the prostitutes and customers are shattered like safety glass, the real perpetrators take their earnings and run. This is the true horror of the child sex trade.