It's time we figured out who the real perpetrators are-and they're not children. Adults are the primary beneficiaries of the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Adults, not children, run the bars where customers meet prostitutes. Adults run brothels and escort services. Adults make and distribute pornography.
Adults advertise sex tours and buy children like slaves.
Helping Prostituted Children Hotaling emphasized that prostituted children need appropriate schools to complete their education and prepare for life without prostitution dependency. They also need counseling to help correct self-destructive and negative behaviors. But more than anything else, prostituted children need appropriate treatment for the core issue of sexual abuse. They provided counseling and transitional housing for 18 months. Contact with the girls was maintained for three years.