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they have no where to turn. In some cases their parents sold them into

the industry as part of a bondage agreement. This means that they had

a debt to pay that they could not afford and therefore had to sell their

children to do their dirty work for them. Even when a child gathers up

enough courage to go to a local authority their pleas are often

ignored. In one case, a girl who had been a prostitute for a few

months, went to the police and told them her story. The officer in

charge took half an hour to change her statement from one of sexual

harassment to that of rape.5 Why does this happen? It is because

authority figures are profiting from exploiting children. They are paid

to turn a blind eye to several problems like when tourists come into

their country looking for cheap sex and when prostitutes are trafficked

across borders, because this brings much needed revenue into their

country. As for the sexual tours that are arranged the laws regarding

them are very discouraging as well. It is not against the law, in the

United States, to organize tours to exploit erotic nightlife in other

parts of the world. However, it is illegal to sexually exploit children

at home and abroad, which is why most of the U.S. sex tour operators are

very careful about how they word their advertising brochures.6 The

problem here is obviously that there is a very fine line between what is

legal and what is not, and this is why many people can slip through the

judicial cracks. There are also laws aplenty dealing with child labor,

but again they do not seem effective. In India no employer has ever

been imprisoned for employing children. Of 4,000 cases registered

against Indian employers for violating child labor laws, 3,500 were

dismissed or the fines were less than $6. The rest remain before

India’s courts.7 In the Declaration of the Right’s of a Child, which

became a resolution of the UN general assembly in 1959, article 9 states

that: “the child shall be protected against all forms of neglect,