“A child victim of prostitution is a child to be protected”repeated this Sunday 10 March on Franceinfo Sarah El PelosaMinister Delegate for Children, Youth and the Family.
And for good reason, child prostitution has exploded in France in recent years. According to various associations, more than 10,000 young people they would resort to it, despite a control plan having already been launched almost three years ago.
Digital incursions for” speak, warn »
“This figure does not decrease because today there are other forms of prostitution which mainly affect children, explains Sarah El Hairy, I’m thinking of the arrival of new sites on social media, Onlyfans or MYM. »
So, to combat it, he wants to develop and strengthen digital raids to “talk to these girls and boys on social networks”. If these incursions have already existed since 2021, having been carried out as part of the plan to fight child prostitution, El Hairy hopes that “strengthen”and give new resources to associations.
As with classic street raids, these digital raids will also involve agents “in chats to talk, notify” young. For example, they can “remember that selling a nude video is serious”details Sarah El Hairy. “ It is 7 years in prison and a 100,000 euro fine for anyone who pushes a minor to send videos or photos of himself on digital networks. »he adds.
Mobilize teaching staff
“We need to make it possible to identify signals, he continues into the Franceinfo microphone. For example, the arrival of a cell phone, a bag, a change of look, sometimes isolation, a change of friends, all these small signals should allow us today to say attention, maybe something is happening. help or at least start this discussion. »
The delegated minister also wishes to mobilize teachers, sports and cultural associations, “because we need to create a sort of chain, a chain of protection”.
For Sarah El Hairy we must therefore be alert“the parents, obviously, first, telling them to break this taboo, have these discussions at home because prostitution is not exclusively a human trafficking network. There are some and we fight against them.”she said.
He also announced that a network had been dismantled “a few days ago in Orléans” and would like to point out that child prostitution “it can affect all families, all social classes, all territories”.
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