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In the Philippines it is disturbing that due to lenient monitoring and implementation, alcohol such as beer and hard drinks can easily be bought in grocery and convenience stores by teenagers. Our law sets the minimum legal drinking age at 18, nevertheless underage drinking is widespread and prevalent.
Now think, ok? Do you really believe bars hired kids to hustle drinks with the drinking age at 18? YES...no doubt some 16 maybe even 15 year old lied or slide by but........12? 13? 14?....hahahaha!!!! AND...you aren't going into bars thinking little kids will be in there, why would they be?
A sick ass pedo goes looking for kids, that is something totally different than hanging in bars with "maybe" some girl lied about her age. You really don't get that?
More lies. You do realize how easy it is to expose these lies, right?
18-year-old Leilane (name changed by the editor) now dreams of a career as a stewardess. But two years ago, the teenager could not even imagine going to school, making friends and living in a normal house. She had no dreams for the future. In those days, instead of going to school, Leilane was working for a daily minimum wage and living in a bar. At the age of 14, she started working as an "entertainer" in Olongapo, a city located to the north of the capital Manila.
Tourists from the US, Australia, Europe, Japan and Korea regularly visited the bar. And they all sought sexual services from underage girls.
The Philippines, along with Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia, is a global hub for child and teenage pros utes. Sex tourism is widespread in many Philippine cities and is one of the most lucrative income sources of organized criminal groups.
While around 800,000 people in the Southeast Asian nation are involved in pros ution, about 100,000 children are being forced into the sex trade every year, according to UNICEF estimates. They are often children from poor families living in the country's poverty-stricken slums and rural areas, from where they are trapped and exploited by pimps.
Despite being illegal, pros ution continues to be rampant in the Philippines, where the authorities turn a blind eye to numerous karaoke bars and underground night clubs in return for bribes.
The decades-long presence of US armed forces in the Philippines was also one of the factors responsible for the current situation. Millions of US soldiers had been based in military facilities such as the Clark Air Base and Naval Base Subic Bay until they closed down in 1991.
Neighboring towns like Olongapo and Angeles were known as "recreation centers" for these soldiers. And even after the closing down of the bases, these cities continued to depend on the sex industry. They are now called "sin cities."
http://www.dw.com/en/philippines-struggling-to-tackle-child-pros ution/a-18305386
Home for 50 years to a United States naval base, Subic Bay has become synonymous with foreigners looking for sex in the long string of bars that line the main road along the coast.
The bars in this area are often packed with older foreign men ogling the young Filipina women available for the night for a "bar fine" of around 1,500 Filipino pesos, or just over $35. Many of the bars are owned and operated by Americans, often former military servicemen who either served on the base or whose ships docked here until the base was shuttered under political pressure in 1992.
Most of the pros utes working in the bars are indeed 18 or older. But in the Philippines, just a small scratch to the surface can reveal a layer of young, underage girls who have mostly come from impoverished rural provinces to sell their bodies to help support their families.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=18582802