He said it was also easy to buy child "sex slaves", some of whom were on offer in South Africa for as little as R45 each. The article was researched during a visit to South Africa, where he spoke to teenage victims and also to some of the "monstrous traffickers" who sold them into sex slavery. He has now spoken of his experiences when taking part in the SAfm Radio discussion programme, the After Eight Debate, on the issue of human trafficking.
Skinner said it was hard to gauge the extent of the traffic in South Africa. Unless there is aggressive police work to go out and find this population and protect them, they will not be found and will continue to suffer in silence. What I could do was go out and find a few and tell their stories. Together they interviewed child prostitutes, one of whom, a year-old, was dying in a Bloemfontein hospice. And she died a week later.
That is the end game for these children. Jude promised to get him two year-old girls for R45 each. If they do not make that target they will get the consequences. Related Tags.
