Cutting Edge: The Child Sex Trade
Liviu Tipurita returns to his homeland of Romania to investigate stories he has heard that there has been a sudden rise in the trafficking of children into the sex trade. He meets an old friend, fifteen-year-old street kid Laurentiu, who tells him he’s been selling sex to foreign pedophiles since he was twelve, and that a wealthy German has bought him a passport so that he can be trafficked to the West. Laurentiu introduces Liviu to his gang of street kids, some as young as eleven, being preyed on by the pedophiles.
Liviu follows up stories of kids trafficked to Italy, and on the streets of Milan films a fourteen year old boy being pimped by his own father. Over weeks of investigation, several more cases of families selling their own children for sex are documented.
Back in Romania, he hears about an English pedophile/trafficker called Tom. Co-producer/director Andrew Smith infiltrates Tom’s pimping network, and films damning evidence of how underage boys are preyed upon and trafficked to wealthy pedophile clients in the West.
hmm, i saw this on television a while back and couldnt believe what I saw, I think I know this guy Tom pretty well, and some of his stories do place him there at those times, also the background in charity work.
I am not sure which I find more disturbing this Documentary or most of the Comments posted about it? All the wildly different viewpoints all missing the main points of this movie and taking a much to narrow view of everything.
Those making assumptions that Children are only being sold in Romania, some other Country not in good old USA! I can point out several cases that have happen just this week, even just today if you would care to investigate them? One ring has ties to the current President and his collection of wealthy Idiots. If your interested I suggest checking out, researching what is known as the Franklin Files, or Franklin Savings and Loan in Nebraska, it also is connected to the missing Paper boy Johnny" Gosch
Back to my main point, I used to work with street children, getting the off the streets and into care. Finding them shelter, jobs, food, clothes trying to get them education things to just stay alive day to day. Medical care is a major issue with no money and sex with creeps the only way to make it. Drug, Alcohol abuse soon fallows. Also violence, rape, other abuse.
What I am getting at is that this is not some 3rd World problem it is happening right here in America and will keep happening. As long as everything is about money and how it controls everything in our lives. Money is valued more then Human life and life is worth less then anything else.
Also each State in America needs the same Age of Consent in my State the age of Consent is 16, others its 18. Not too many years back it was 12 years old to get married and consent to have sex? WTF 12 year old could give consent to anything? At one time Delawares age of Consent was 7 years old explain how a child that age could consent to anything, let alone how anyone would want to have anything to do with a child that age is just disturbing on a whole different level.
Most 18 year olds have no idea about the long term consequence of sex, let alone getting married to someone. I worked at a Children's Psych units that had 26 patients, they were all registered Sex offenders. Ages 6-16 every one of those boy's had been molested as a child, some were sold\rented out by their parents many, many times before they could even walk. We are required to read their case histories, intakes, to better treat the boy's and to know what to watch out for, things like "RED FLAGS."
If one is getting ready to Rape or molest someone in the unit happened a lot at night, though some would sell sex for candy, soda, extra food, or even friendships too. Most of the boy's were molested by Straight Parents, or extended family Uncles, Cousins, some friends or friends of the family but almost all were molested by a blood relative at an average age of 2-7 years old. (An Average the youngest on record was 18 months)
When talking about the cycle of abuse and it repeating somethings that always goes on or you notice if you work in this area. Is that the boys were taken into custody because "The Abuse Cycle" They started repeating the same things that were done to them as victims that were done to them and sadly several of the Victims of the Boy's on the Unit had gone on to Rape, Moles other Children and were already taken into care and the process always repeats its self. (Victim of Molestation going on to become an Abuser and Victimizing other children in the same ways as was done to them.)
I could tell some disgusting, disturbing things that I had to read and listen to the kids talk about. But I won't they are just too hard to repeat and think about. We need to fix our problems here in American and then try to fix the rest of the World. I am not saying that we need to turn our back on the rest of the World and kick anyone out that is not like us, that seems to be the popular delusion right this minute.
But thinking that things like this never happen here or seldom do is a lie. America is just as bad, and in a lot of cases worse then other Countries you just don't see or hear about the things because its hidden or covered up to keep up that illusion of the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave!
Also one last comment none of the abusers or the abused identify as Gay. They were all married with children, Fathers, Uncles, Cousins, none were or are Gay. That is a myth and their are several very well credited studies to back that fact up including ones conducted by the FBI. Calling Pedos Fags, or Gay is an insult to Gay's and they are not the same thing and never will be. I have worked with several great gay support staff and had no issues or worries about any of them harming or molesting any of the kids on the unit. They were actually better at caring for the kids and the kids related better to the staff member not knowing who was what sexual identity just that they felt more comfortable dealing with them as humans.
All 26 of those kids will never get out of the Unit once they became a Registered Sex Offender and committed a level of offense they are committed for life. All other treatments have failed they are considered "Throw Aways" and are warehoused in inpatient hospitals, group homes, or if necessary Prisons. Once they stop being victims and start becoming Victimizers\Offenders their is nothing to do with them. Most will end up committing suicide after being warehoused for 10-30 years.
Imagine being locked up at age 5 and spending the rest of your life in Prison say 80+ years in a cage all because you were molested and took out the anger on someone else? (Not justifying or saying this is correct. At that age you have no idea about consequences. The person that molested gets off with good behavior and a good lawyer 5-7 years out of 15 year sentence)
Don't fly to Romania, or some other Country America has its own, Pimps, Pornographers, Molesters, Abusers, Scum of the Earth right here. Save your money and give it to a worthy charity that does its work here. But make sure the money actually goes to help not into someones pocket for things like "Administrative expense" that is a way of saying "I am paying myself 99.9% of all the money first" in other words being a thief or Scamming you. Give money to homeless shelters, clothes to charities that help the needy not to ones that sale them for profits.
I give money when I can to job training programs to get kids off the streets and into jobs, off drugs, drinking, things like that. Back in the day I would open up properties that were not rented out during the Winter just to get kids off the street so they would not freeze to death when it was snowing and below freezing at night. If anyone can remember that far back.
The pimp from UK is a psychopath. He trade sex on teenagers from the most vulnerable minority in Romania : gypsies. Disgusting!
I would also suggest watching "Children of the Decree" on this site. It may provide insight into how these children have been raised.
I can't believe someone described this as a "touching" story...Sick, sick people!
what kind of father sells his son smh
How can these Romanians walk by these homeless kids daily without batting an eye? No food, no home, sniffing solvent from a bag...this is Hell on Earth. And pedophiles from around the world are allowed to travel there and cruise for children openly. What a sick place. Kids should never have to live like this.
ok, I thought I had it tough... it s difficult to understand the desperation of these boys, getting in their shoes, being at the mercy of this tom character, and this other one at his father s, I never could imagine such things possible...
This breaks my heart
OMFG this is so sick these poor kids these guys who are working them should be killed no questions asked.If i was ritch i would go save them all if i could,how can this world allow this,Mankind maked me sick awe those poor children,These disgusting men you use if arrested once they should be shot,thats is end of story
It is very sad to see these things happening in so called developed European countries. Authorities should do more to help these children who are in the streets. Mainly NGOs should play a big part in this part of the world rather than spending money on them for their own benefits. It is so sad since these kind of activities will lead the people from bad to worst.
The Cheuchescu kids coming to age :(
This is one of the most touching documentaries i have watched. It makes me sick to see gay men do this. I think that no one can solve this problem until and unless people adopt islam, go by what the quran says which in this case. Death penalty for such crimes, and well raising of young boys and kids in general..but for now, i will just go pray for them. May allah help them, for he is the only one that can.
The boys are just desperate for money, and being brought up like that, its become normal for them. Shame of on humanity in our time. shame shame shame.
I would lime to buy a copy of this documentary for our NGO trafficking resource library
I watched up to 20 minutes and decided to stop. I currently am doing an English project that must revolve around an issue in which i decided to pick sex trafficking. Little did I know about how much of an impact it would leave upon me. I do not have the courage to continue watching this documentary and am on debating whether or not I should change my topic now. God bless the people who are unfortunate and must live horrible, disgusting, lives in order to see another day.
OH GOD,I CANT STOP CRYING WATCHING THIS!!HOW CAN THAT SUBHUMAN CREEP TOM BE WALKING AROUND??!!AND THE {POLICE} WORRY ABOUT ILLEGAL ALIENS BUT NOT PIMPS???WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO?!I DONT EVEN WANT TO LIVE IN A WORLD LIKE THIS SOME DAYS,IT BREAKS MY HEART;THOSE POOR YOUNG MEN SNIFFING PAINT KILLING THEM SELVES DESTROYING THEIR PRECIOUS BRAINS..WE ARE QUICKLY DESTROYING EARTH AND HUMANITY,IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRAGIC AND DISGRACEFUL!!Come to AUS tom and see what we think of paedophiles here you skum!!!!!!!!!
How can some people be so disgusting and heartless?!?
And you thoughtyou had it hard!! sick! poor inocent children,people responsible deserve to be punished or shouldi say bring back the deathe penalty!
gr8 documentry and hard effort investigated but my hearts is taken by these kids :-''''(((
western values?
There shouldn't be a need of this filth and debauchery amongst our species. I'm disgusted with humanity. Truly I am... and I am more upset and frustrated that this embarrassment even occurs in the more well developing countries such as United States, Canada, Japan, United Kingdom etc, as well as in my own neighborhood (which by the way I do help out in any way I can on that matter). Whenever possible I do my part to help out end child abuse... anytime and anywhere. I wish I had a set of clones and scatter them throughout everywhere just so that no child is abused, neglected or forgotten.
long ago people used to give there kids to the church to be molested and sing in the choir with there balls cut off so they could be blessed with a good life...many many more examples of this in many ways can be seen through out history from all cultures even in today in some places ... and today people make comments like this that this is awful and like this is some new thing - many travesties in the world against all people gong on now - like all the wars going on all over the world and millions being killed displaced and kept in poverty and you all act like the a few kids having problems in romania is the travesty of the world ? get real -
These children are beautiful. Such tragic circumstances... they should have had the fair start in life all children to deserve! I so wish the death penalty was back for these evil digusting perverted men that take advantage of such vulnerable children.
Good job by making this documentary this needed to be seen to make some changes. I only wish i was rich then i would give them what they need to start a new life.
What does it say about us collectively that this happens?