The Sexual Exploitation of children (ESNNA in Peru) is a problem that seriously affects the fundamental rights of children and adolescents. It consists of the use of minors in acts or representations of a sexual or erotic nature, to satisfy the interests or desires of other people in exchange for an economic benefit or payment of another nature. It implies recognizing abusive behavior against girls, boys, and adolescents, in which they are deprived of their most basic rights.
SEC responds to multiple factors that transcend any particular environment or situation, violating the rights of people in any sector. Although it is true that millions of boys and girls are sexually exploited, it has clandestinely and social tolerance as its main characteristics, so obtaining a specific number becomes complicated.
It is the sexual exploitation of children or adolescents by a person or persons, who move from their place of origin or country of birth, with the aim of engaging in sexual contact with children and adolescents, occasionally or preferably.
The sex tourist frequently resorts to the use of lodging, transportation, and other services related to tourism that facilitate contact with children and adolescents and allow the perpetrator to maintain a discreet presence among other people and the environment around him.
Victim/s: girls, boys and adolescents.
Offender/s: Person who has sexual relations or acts of sexual content with minors in a situation of sexual exploitation, as well as those who collaborate or provide the conditions for this fact to take place.
Sexual relations in exchange for money or other favors: Perhaps it is the best-known form of sexual exploitation, it consists of “the use of a child in sexual activities in exchange for remuneration or any other form of retribution” (UN, 2000). The use of minors under 18 years of age in the sex trade is associated.
Use of children and adolescents in pornography: It includes both the production and the distribution, commercialization, possession, disclosure, exchange, and storage of “any representation, by any means of communication, of a boy or girl under 18 years of age, or with the appearance of boy or girl, involved in real or simulated sexual activities, explicitly or suggested, for any purpose”.
Sex tourism: It is the use of a boy or girl in sexual activities by people who travel from their country or city of origin to another. It occurs in the context of tourism; therefore, it predominates in places whose economy depends on this sector. Many of the sex tourists take advantage of their anonymous status (nobody knows them and they stay for a short time), of the lack of control by the authorities due to the difficulty in determining which tourists arrive with the intention of exploiting children, and of the permissiveness of some social groups (taxi drivers, hotel managers, etc.) in the cities they visit.
Trafficking of children and adolescents for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation: Human trafficking is understood to be the “recruitment, transportation, transfer, reception or reception of persons for the purpose of exploitation, through threats or use of force, or other forms of coercion, kidnapping, fraud, deception, abuse of power or the position of vulnerability, or the delivery or receipt of payments or benefits to obtain the consent of one person who has control over another.
For girls, boys, and adolescents (NNA):
For the tourist destination:
The demand is made up of all those people who are the so-called users of child exploitation networks. In this sense, they are the ones who promote the continued existence of girls, boys, and adolescents who are victims of this problem. If the demand did not exist, the supply would be eradicated, that is, ESNNA.
MINCETUR (Ministry of foreign trade and tourism) faces the problem of ESNNA because in this crime there are bad tourist agents who actively intervene and therefore, despite the regulations that sanction this activity, in different parts of the country tourist servers intervene in the problem. In addition, given that in many cases the people who make up the users of the exploitation networks in Peru are national or foreign tourists, therefore the State plays a role in the prevention, persecution, and rehabilitation of victims, all with the purpose of eradicating this crime and guarantee the protection of girls, boys, and adolescents.
Maintain an attitude of rejection of ESNNA, warn of the prison sentence.
Immediately report any case of ESNNA to the Public Ministry or the National Police.
Have in hand the following telephone numbers:
