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Children That Have Been Trafficked
Senior Advisor
Lars Lööf
Children’s Unit
Council of the Baltic Sea States
http://childcentre.baltinfo.org
Reintegration means:
1. Assuring the right to adequate psychological, medical and social support.
2. Reunification with family carers.3. Noncriminalisation of any acts
committed.4. Vocational training or opportunities
to study.
The four C’s
CCCCCCCC
ontrolontrol
losurelosureompensationompensation
omplicityomplicity
Effects of exploitation and abuse in a child
Diminishes the child’s capacity to be the agent of her/his life.
Possible cognitive distortions
Emotional distress Loss of trust in adults and
in the world
Lack of Control
Lack of Control
The effect of disclosing Should lead to the child’s
recognition that he/she was subjected to something unacceptable and wrong
Should lead to a feeling in the child of not being in any way responsible
Should lead to a reunification with non offending family members
”I’ve always been beaten up”
”I followed him voluntarily”
”My mother thinks I was waiting on tables”
Reintegration must take place in close co-operation
with the exploited child
All attempts at reintegrating a child subjected to trafficking must take into consideration these facts and offer a
Holding: – Continuous– Predictable– Stable– Available
To be involved in commercial sex as a child
Forced to look like you enjoy it Smile at the guy Pretend that you like him
Pressure from others ”It’s OK” ”You’ll get used to it” ”Smile”
Identifying with a part makes you loose yourself
There is a script to follow
Enhances the feeling of complicity ”Anyone can see what I did” ”I can never
return”
Complicity
Is it more difficult to recover as a child?
Being involved in commercial sex is just one part of the exploitation a child is subjected to– The need to resolve other issues may stand in
the way of reintegration efforts Drug dependency, criminality, vagrancy.
Dependency issues– The need to be taken care of
For every child, there should be someone mad about her/him
– The need to belong to a defined group The only possible control of this
experience may be to stay quiet
Closure Realising that it is there but that it
will not hurt you anymore Sharing the burden – so many
children are out there
Compensation Compensation through society’s
admission through sentencing all perpetrators– Both the traffickers and the buyers. Buying
sex from a minor is a crime in most countries in the world.
Financial compensation Going public; fight for the rights of
abused children
Children That Have Been Trafficked
Senior Advisor
Lars Lööf
Children’s Unit
Council of the Baltic Sea States
http://childcentre.baltinfo.org