The last place you should expect to find a child is in a brothel; yet for 17-year-old Phoebe from Kenya, this is her life.1
Phoebe comes from a poor family. When she dropped out of school, she went in search of a better life – instead she has been forced to have group sex with tourists for no money.2
Reports indicate that more than 50,000 children are involved in different forms of commercial sexual exploitation.3 It is most common along the Kenyan Coast where the majority of tourism activities take place – in fact sex offenders travel to Kenya for this very reason: to prey on these vulnerable victims.4
No child should be forced into the commercial sex industry for their survival. We must ensure that these predators keep their hands off Kenya’s children.
Join us and Child Aid Organization Kenya in calling on the Kenyan government to declare zero tolerance of commercial sexual exploitation of children, backed by regular monitoring and law enforcement.
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Lakshmi S.,
Dee A.,
Alejandro B.,
Yuh Sheang J.,
CAROLINE B.,
Valentina V.,
Abraham O.,
Lenka E.,
“Forced to have sex” is not a thing. It does not exist. She was gangraped. All of these children are victims of rape and rape trafficking. One of the reason why rape culture is not taken seriously is because the media and organizations are too scared to call rape what it is every time. You cannot force sex. You cannot force consent. It is rape.
EVIL IS AS EVIL DOES, these unfortunate children have possibly as little as 3 years to live before they succumb to some type of sexual disease by then she would have earned huge amounts of money for her “handler” and she would not have seen a penny herself, this won’t stop until you cut off the demand.
Even an adult should not be a slave; to exploit children is cowardly and deserves harsh punishment
Am appalled by this report having spent some time in Kenya, including especially Kilifi and Malindi. My wife was working in Kilifi when I met her. This is unacceptable – but of course it’s happening everywhere, including the U.K. and U.S. and much of Europe, and everywhere there is official denial and cover up.
what is president Kenyatta doing? attracting peadophiles to Kenya for their foreign exchange contribution? or is he the head of this group and provides them protection???