Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

 

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What is CSEC?

"COULD I BE INVOLVED"

Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) refers to sexually abusing a child for economic gains. CSEC constitutes coercion and violence against children and amounts to forced labor and a contemporary form of slavery. Accordingly, a child is sexually abused by an adult for remuneration in cash or kind to the child or a third person or persons. Here, the child is treated as a sexual and a commercial object. CSEC can take various forms like:

  • Prostitution of children

  • Child pornography

  • Child sex tourism

  • Other forms of transactional sex

Children are not developmentally, legally, or socially able to make informed choices to enter or remain in commercial sexual exploitation. Instead, they do so as a result of desperation, coercion, enticement and/or manipulation.

  • A child under the age of 16 cannot consent to sexual activity.

  • Commercial sexually exploited children should be treated as victims of abuse rather than offenders.

  • CSEC victims do not choose their lifestyle; rather, they are manipulated into it by perpetrators.

Warning

CSEC Victims are recruited in a variety of ways, including:

  • Targeting runaways

  • Seduction and coercion

  • False advertising for "modeling" or "acting" or dancing

  • Peer recruitment Internet chat rooms or other forms of social media

  • Violence and forced kidnapping

  • Parent/Caregiver exploiting children

  • Exotic dancing

Help is Available

If you are involved or know someone who is a victim of CSEC, please contact:

 

Children’s Advocacy Centers of Georgia, Inc (CACGA)

CACGA.org

Hotline 1-866-END-HTGA (363-4844)

#ENDHTGA

[email protected]