Brazil is enjoying the World Cup with fans flocking to the 12 destinations, but fans are not only looking for fun in football but a disagreeable habit of child prostitution is being practised by tourists, local Brazilians, taxi drivers on children from age 17 downwards.
Small children are being lured to having sex for mere £1.30 to £2.60 especially in places like Recife which is the fifth largest city in Brazil and will host five World Cup matches. Other cities too are not excluded.
Children don’t get food and are hooked on sniff, from bottles of industrial glue to stop the pangs of hunger.
The Brazilian police acts unaware of the racket that has caught the poverty stricken children of Brazil to force themselves to enter into such a heinous trade at this age. Little girls often become pregnant and find no food to feed themselves or their babies in whatever plight they may enter into the world.
On arriving at the airport waiting cabbies offer the best deals to passengers who agree to buy sex and drugs. Children sit around like cattle in the City Square waiting to be picked by fans. One who is not aware may think of this to be a harmless show of innocence but the real reason the kids accumulate in the Square is for offering sex without a second thought.
These children are accompanied by translators and missionary who works with children on the streets who are mostly hooked to sniffing and don’t really offer the right protection to these children.
A charity organization Happy Child, set up to care for children who get pregnant by selling themselves for sex, has launched a warning campaign for World Cup fans which includes wristbands for the kids. Fans have been warned not to indulge in child prostitution. But perverse and indulgent behavior that is damaging the lives of thousands of innocent children even before they learn to realize the best things of life colors the World Cup enjoyment in shades of sadness. Hopefully these little children are spared and their government brings greater development and safekeeping for the youngest members of the Brazilian society.
