Photo: Getty ImagesChildren as young as 12 are being forced into selling sex on New Zealand streets. Auckland University social researcher Natalie Thorborn has released the disturbing findings into the plight of underage sex workers saying it is much more common than people think. At least one case is before the courts where a person is facing charges assisting a young person into prostitution and profiting from it. She said it was a confronting situation that no young person deserved. Typically those using the services of the adolescent prostitute was a middle-class white person who desired sex with underage girls.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 12, 2017 21:45 UTC