Scotland: Child trafficked into Scotland as sex slave

04 November 2010
By Gareth Rose

A CHILD trafficked into Scotland to be a sex slave is among a group of young victims uncovered by a new Scottish project.

The Scottish Separated Children's Guardianship Project has offered support to 13 unaccompanied asylum seekers, all under the age of 18, since its launch nine weeks ago. Project workers said at least seven have been trafficked into Scotland and exploited, with at least one forced into the sex industry. They have been made to work in cannabis factories, wash cars, work as servants, and pose as dependants in benefit scams.

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• A Superior Court judge ruled on Tuesday that prostitutes should be allowed to freely communicate with customers on the street, conduct their business in their homes or brothels, and hire accountants, drivers and bodyguards, without fear of criminal prosecution.

• Reports from jurisdictions have consistently indicated that the legalization of prostitution has not achieved the expected results.

• In 2005, the mayor of Amsterdam admitted that the Dutch experiment to curb abuse by legalizing prostitution in 2000 had failed miserably.

• In 2005 it was reported that Germany was reconsidering its position on legalized prostitution, made legal there in 2003, after reports that legalization had not really had any benefit for prostitutes, nor had it improved the situation for Germany at large.

• According to a study by the Scottish government in 2003 on the consequences of prostitution policies in several countries, those that had legalized and/or regulated prostitution had a dramatic increase in all facets of the sex industry, saw an increase in the involvement oforganized crime in the sex industry, and found a dismaying increase in child prostitution, trafficking of women and girls and violence against women.

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