Image from Pinterest Image from Pinterest. TAIPEI Taiwan News -- Taipei police recently busted a sex party in which four year-old female minors had been lured into participating in after allegedly being promised free ketamine cigarettes by a year-old male they met online, reported Apple Daily. Police were notified of a suspected drug abuser in a hotel in Taipei and when they arrived on the scene the occupants refused to open the door. After a minute standoff, police finally entered the room, where no drugs were found and the occupants were fully dressed, but two used condoms were spotted in the trashcan. Inside the room, police encountered two year-old adult males, one year-old male and four year-old females. After taking the seven in for questioning, police found that the four young women were middle school students. Wang, who works in catering, hinted that he could provide her with free ketamine cigarettes if she would join in his sex party. Xiao Wang told her three year-old female friends of the ketamine offer and the all apparently agreed. The seven then arranged to meet at a hotel near a Taipei MRT station, however, Wang did not produce the ketamine cigarettes as promised. After a brief argument ensued, two of the women were then coerced by Wang into engaging in sex with the two adult men.
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The U. The foundation bases its statistics on interviews with young girls conducted at hospitals and rehabilitation centers, she said. She said figures provided by private social groups put the number of child prostitutes in Taiwan at around 60,, and some of the girls are as young as seven years old, Shen said. Young girls sold into sex slavery, sometimes by their own parents, are forcedto receive 20 to 30 male clients a day. Taiwan's National Police Administration announced a crackdown on young girls working as hostesses in nightclubs, but the law does little to punish men who finance the sex slave trade. Patrons of brothels that keep child prostitutes can be prosecuted only if a complaint is filed, something that would cost a child prostitute her livelihood, and possibly her life. A revised children's welfare bill before parliament would give local authorities the right to publicize the names of people who visit brothels known to have child prostitutes. Prostitution is legal in Taiwan for adult prostitutes who register with authorities and submit to regular health check-ups.
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Prostitution in Taiwan was made illegal under a law. Outside these zones prostitution is illegal. As of no "special zones" had been opened. During the period of Japanese rule — , geisha houses and brothels were authorized to operate in certain districts of Taiwan. Later geishas evolved into "hostesses". As late as the s, many girls who had been indentured by their parents into prostitution for financial reasons did so willingly, out of a feeling of filial piety. Korean women came to work as prostitutes for the Japanese in Taiwan during this period. When the Republic of China took control in , the Chinese Nationalist government initially banned most hostesses and prostitutes, labeling prostitution an immoral practice encouraged by the Japanese.
In the past, domestic trafficking in women and girls often targeted vulnerable groups such as young girls from poor families or minority groups. Since the s, an increasing flow of immigrant women, mainly from Vietnam and Indonesia and some from China, into Taiwan has created a new group of Human Trafficking victims. The current study intends to identify, describe, and categorize reported and prosecuted human trafficking cases involving women and girls according to the HTPA in Taiwan. The analysis is based on 37 court cases, involving victimized women and girls and perpetrators. This study identifies six forms of Human Trafficking victims according to their country of origin, vulnerability status, and means of transport. This study found that women and girls suffer from both labor and sexual exploitation, from mainly domestic male perpetrators. While sexual exploitation is more evenly distributed among citizens and immigrants and affects both adults and minors, labor exploitation seems to be an exclusive phenomenon among women immigrant workers in the data.
