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Vancouver cited as popular with sex tourists who prey on kids
Tuesday, November 21, 2000
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WINNIPEG, Manitoba -- Vancouver, B.C., is becoming popular with sex tourists who prey on children, according to a report on the global fight against child exploitation.
"In Vancouver, the increase in child sex tourism is attributed to rising levels of homeless children, the city's proximity to child sex hot spots in Asia and to the fact that information on the city's child sex trade is available on the Internet," said the report by Beyond Borders, a Winnipeg-based child abuse watchdog group.
Spokesman Mark Hecht, a lawyer in Ottawa, said at a news conference Monday that Canada's age of consent for sex -- 14 -- may also help lure pedophiles to the West Coast.
"We have created a local sex tourism destination in British Columbia," Hecht said.
Beyond Borders released the report in Canada on behalf of a group called End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking. The 178-page report, "Looking Back, Thinking Forward," was sponsored by the European Union and the Swedish International Development Agency.
It surveyed the response of 124 countries, rating them on their plans, monitoring systems and legislative measures to fight child sexual exploitation.
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