The women activist said the issue of under age children, most of them students from various schools in Monrovia and its surrounding, she intoned, are in the hobbit of wearing their school uniforms visibly in the streets corners carrying on the immoral practice on a daily basis. Madam Thompson among other things also claimed that most of the students in the hobbit often times put their parents under false impression that they are going to school every day, but only to realize that are heavily engaged in prostitution in the various street corners.
By submitting above, you agree to our privacy policy. She alleged that most females under age were topping the list of those engaged in the act. Quoting one of the prostitutes only identified as Decontee, Madam Thompson claimed that the little girl, whose age is 16, told her that it was the sex trade that at most time help her to continue her education and if she did not engage in the act, she stands the risk to suffer to the highest degree and may not even have the finance to go to school.
The WAHT boss disclosed that most of the underage females she met repeated similar scenarios of not having any body to cater to them; something she said was largely responsible for their involvement in commercial sex. AllAfrica publishes around reports a day from more than news organizations and over other institutions and individuals , representing a diversity of positions on every topic. We publish news and views ranging from vigorous opponents of governments to government publications and spokespersons.
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