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Adult Industry Association warns the Barbados government about the short and long term impact of the growing trend of sexual activity among underage kids.
Over the past 2-3 years, countless numbers of videos have been circulating via WhatsApp and other social media platforms, depicting school girls in Barbados performing sexual acts.
What is even more alarming is that some of these kids are having sex in their school uniforms, which is highly disgraceful and disrespectful to their schools, their teachers and their parents. Our late Prime Minister, Sir. Errol Walton Barrow must be turning in his grave, at the undoing of his legacy of making Barbados renowned for having the 3rd highest literacy rate in the world.
Today Barbados is on target to be renowned as the country with the highest rate of underge sex in schools , and the number one sex tourism destination in the Caribbean for pheodefiles.
These videos are not only circulated within Barbados. Unfortunately there are also shared worldwide thus bringing Barbados to the attention of pheodefiles and child sex traffickers who are always looking for new destinations to exploit children. The last thing Barbados tourism needs is to become synonymous with this type of negative activity. Once acquired, a country can never rid itself of this reputation.
For years, minors in Barbados have been sexually exploited by local men with some degree of impunity, as very few have been prosecuted for these heinous acts. With these videos of child pornography floating around social media, it wouldn’t be long before a global demand is created for little bajan boys and girls.
This scourge gives rise to a number of questions.
1) Are the videos we get to see only a fraction of the number of school kids having sex?
2) Why have the morals, values and self respect of our children in Barbados society deteriorated so low that they not only have sex in schools, but deliberately allow videos of these acts to produced and post on social media.
3) Are parents doing enough to stem this problem?
4) Are the government and the school administrators doing enough?
It is time for Barbadian society to stop burying their heads in the sand and recognise that this problem is not isolated to a handful of kids who happen to get caught via videos on social media. Sexual activity among minors in Barbados is an islandwide problem within secondary schools and to a lesser extent, primary schools. The impact is no longer just the spread of STI’s and teenage pregnancies. Child prostitution and sex trafficking are now a reality and continue to grow exponentially on the island.
Barbados needs to take onboard the lessons learned by countries like Vietnam, Brazil, Romania, Philippines and India where these problems have existed for years to varying degrees.
As the head of AIA and as a concerned citizen, Charlie Spice is appealing to the Ministry Of Education, Ministry Of Tourism, Police Department, Immigration Department, Child Care Board and other relevant organisations to develop and implement realistic interventions and sustainable solutions to address these issues.
The management of AIA is happy to offer assistance as required.
This is also a warning to parents who brush this issue under the carpet because their children are not the ones seen in the videos. Are you sure your child is not having sex at school or elsewhere?
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