Tourism fueling child sex in Mexico

Houston Chronicle ^ | Dec. 30, 2005 | IOAN GRILLO

[SwinneySwitch]

"Mexican authorities used to be in denial about the problem. Now they are starting to address it," said Teresa Kilbane, the fund's Mexico projects director. "But the authorities still fail to give out solid figures on things like the number of pedophiles actually arrested or convicted."

What a cesspool!

[ClearCase_guy]

Gosh. This almost makes it sound like Mexico is a dysfunctional society! [/sarcasm]

[mmercier]

Once every third world scumbag who wants to be here has illegally entered the US there will be no need for travel overseas to diddle.

That day is fast approaching, and has arrived in many UA cities already.

America was always different from the third world, but our entire political establishment seems to want to harmonize the Republic with the third world.

I am now depressed and shall drink a pissload of vodka and retire to my nightmares.

[skaterboy]

Well if they are teachers its ok huh?

[Lorianne]

This is a problem in many countries. There is an international organization devoted to ending child sex tourism and sex slave trafficking.

ECPAT International
http://www.ecpat.net/eng/index.asp

ECPAT USA
http://www.ecpatusa.org/

[WatchingInAmazement]

lack of facilities to help homeless children have hindered attempts in Mexico to curb the problem.

What do you suppose Mexico's laws on US citizens adopting their homeless children are? Next to impossible, I'd bet. I and many others would take these children.

How many of these children are homeless because their parents have left for "greener" grass North of the border? There are villiages in Mexico that are mostly vacant except for children and old people. Family values. Right!

[SuzyQue]

Not to quibble - but pedophilia refers to pre-pubescent children. I only point this out, because the younger the child, the greater the damage, and the word should not be misused or watered-down to encompass other deviant behaviors.

[Wilhelm Tell]

The supposed vacation was set up by an FBI undercover agent who had infiltrated a pro-pedophilia group called the North American Man/Boy Love Association.

I wonder how long before some idiots way out in left field denounce the FBI for spying on NAMBLA and trampling on the "rights" of pedophiles?

[org.whodat]

I seem to recall reading that the age of consent in Mexico is 12 years. Guess V.Fox is the biggest pimp.

[ishabibble]

Vincente Fox is a war criminal, guilty of perpetrating genocide on his own people.

One big misconception that I often find here in the golden ghetto is that so few people realize that Mexico is, in fact, a very wealthy country. The fact that only 3% control that wealth leaves most people shaking their heads, but praying to God that Jaun and Pedro and Gerardo don't get busted so that they can be here on Monday to do all the scut work. Until Fox and that upper echelon is brought to justice by the U.S. and held responsible for the crimes against their own people, we will always have stories such as this pathetic article.

Children in Mexico being raped. Hey, it's a job.
Shame on all of us.

[narses]

The extreme libertine libertarian will claim that:

1 - a child is a 'free adult' when he can support himself, and
2 - that 'consensual' sex for hire is an acceptable form of work-for-hire.

This is why we need to be careful when confronted by the libertine psuedo-philosophy. It has no place for ANYTHING but the individual. Morality, society, family, they all pale in their worship of the dollar and the individual.

[Eagles6]

Wonder how long it will be before the aids rate in Mexico skyrockets? Wonder what it is now?

Let us not forget what the homosexual pedophiles did to Haiti.

[darkangel82]

They're called the ACLU.

[Ciexyz]

Let us not forget what the homosexual pedophiles did to Haiti.

Please elaborate. First I heard of this topic in connection with Haiti.

[little jeremiah]

Homosexual Agenda Plus Moral Absolutes Two-fer.

There is one solution, which needs to be implement the sooner the better. But for some reason I cannot fathom, TPTB are averse to it. Hmmm - could some of TPTB afraid that the solution might be implemented on THEM?

Execute each and every child molester/rapist. Each and every one. No time for a "second offense". There is no reason to keep one who sexually abuses children alive for a minute.

Of course, these kids are probably ruined for life. But some might have a chance. They should have that chance, if there's any organizations willing to help them. In the meantime, the fiends who come there to ruin them should pay the ulimate penalty.

Freepmail me and DirtyHarryY2K if you want on/off the H.A. pinglist, and just me if you want on/off the M.A. pinglist.

[darkangel82]

Hmmm - could some of TPTB afraid that the solution might be implemented on THEM?

Yes, they are. There are judges and other govt officials who have been arrested and charged for this.

[little jeremiah]

I have read things about highups in DC being blackmailed by Saudis, who hold parties and tape the goings on.

Sickness. Character not only matters, it matters more than anything else.

[MillerCreek]

Mexico is always quoting some official or another of theirs as referring to "their rights" of one sort or another in reference to nearly all their problems, but, what about solutions to these largely practical problems?

They devote so much energy into protesting and complaining about nemulous "rights" whenever confronted with problems and yet "rights" don't necessarily put a meal on the table and a table with that meal in a house for theirs to enjoy.

I am also always puzzled just how primitive Mexico has remained (see above) and why. I've been there and I know what I'm talking about. It's a very primitive place. And, from the problems that many from Mexico have now brought to the U.S. (including those protests and complaints about "rights"), they continue to seem to need to cling to their primitive perspectives and reject improving upon it by...letting it go.

Because they are so obstinately committed to clinging to a culture that is primitive and been proven (by their own circumstances, no less) to have failed most, I conclude: primitive.

And this story sure does shoot holes (pun...sorry) in the old ruse of the American market that "makes Mexico" ship all those drugs north...sure looks like Mexico has enough demand of it's own.

This is a sad, sad story about a sad, sad reality. God bless and assist those kids.

[MillerCreek]

Another reason Mexico has burst at the seams as to population numbers that it then forcefully exports to the U.S.

[MillerCreek]

I think the most effective angle to try to solve this problem is to attach a negative, extremely negative, message to the concept of machismo as to sexual relationship with any person under the age of eighteen.

Because, the old machismo thing is hardwired into most hispanic cultures and unless it becomes a working understanding that one is "less" macho if one is sexually relating to those under the age of eighteen (worth a try), nothing will change. A death penalty won't influence it, but poses a twisted type of badge as perceived in a zealous macho personality, which just about sums up all hispanic males and many females, in my experience.

Even here in the U.S., I have seen/witnessed firsthand Mexican males soliciting contact with American females who were barely twelve, maybe thirteen, and they seem to take pride in that.

Again, it's a case of a warped concept of manhood and manly whatsits that motivates a lot of these problems but as to cultural crises due to sexualization of children, the machismo problem is responsible for that.