Child prostitutes ‘victims not criminals’
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Child prostitutes are to be treated as victims not offenders under new guidelines to be announced by the Home Office. Home Office minister Alun Michael also promised that links between courts, social services, schools and health services would be improved, and the link between child abuse in the UK and overseas will be investigated. He was speaking at the UK-hosted Asia-Europe (ASEM) summit conference on children which hopes to establish a strategy to prevent European paedophile ’sex tourists’ preying on Asia’s estimated one million child prostitutes. More : news.bbc.co.uk |