The pilot project, which will spread across the country if it proves successful, comes after a six-month survey concluded earlier this year that, of the 378 children identified as at risk of being abused through prostitution in the Stockton-on-Tees area, 187 were male. In a new initiative to be launched this week, Richardson and Davis will start texting and emailing the boys whose numbers and addresses they discover graffitied around the north east of England, asking them if they need help to escape the world they are immersed in. Paying money to a desperate child, or feeding their drug habit, doesn't change the nature of the act,' said Chris Hanvey, UK director of operations at Barnardo's. Paying for sex with children makes the men child abusers, not punters. 'There is no such thing as a "child prostitute". Some even believe they are helping the boys by paying them. Many are married men with children who are in denial about their sexuality.
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The clients too are corrupted by the stigma. Many are not homosexual and they feel ashamed,' he said.
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The boys just can't bring themselves to come forward and talk about what they do. 'If I had one wish it would be to take the stigma away. Richardson knows why his job is difficult. It's a short word, but it's got a big meaning,' said Paul Richardson, an outreach worker in Middlesbrough and one of the few people in his field who works exclusively with boys forced into prostitution.
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The few attempts to reach out to them by charities and welfare groups are fraught with problems. Their 'trade' does not take place on the streets but at pre-arranged destinations: a bedsit, a car in a lay-by, a public toilet. Unlike girls, boys forced into prostitution tend to act alone, making it difficult to build a true picture of what is happening. If four services have identified 15 young people, most of them children, who are actually being sexually exploited, what might be uncovered if the remaining 100-plus services provide us with information?' Davis asked.Ī paucity of information makes gauging the problem difficult. Only 10 have replied so far, and four of these identified children at risk. Researchers gleaned the information from sending out questionnaires to 120 agencies working with children. Of the 15 young people identified in the survey carried out over the last couple of months, five were male. A small-scale survey carried out in Newcastle last month showed that around a third of children known to have been abused through prostitution were boys. The little research that has been done into the problem exposes this feeling as a lie. As a nation we want to protect young women but there is a feeling boys should be able to look after themselves,' said Ady Davis, an outreach worker with the children's charity Barnardo's based in Newcastle upon Tyne. If they register in society's consciousness at all it is as 'rent boys' of popular fable, the willing, homosexual prostitutes who earn a mythical fortune in the backstreets of London's Soho.īut an Observer investigation in UK cities reveals that hundreds of boys, some as young as 10, are being forced to prostitute themselves daily while society looks the other way, reluctant to confront the issue. They cannot be found huddled under the sodium lamps of red-light districts. Young boys forced into prostitution are perceived not to exist. Faecal stains and blood mark the toilet walls, delineating territory. Many of the phone numbers are inked over by boys trying to see off rivals.
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Prices range from £5 to £20, depending on the 'trick' performed and the cost of drugs in whichever city the transaction is taking place.