Alerts high for child prostitution during Medellin's festival season .

[Judi Lynn]

Alerts high for child prostitution during Medellin's festival season .
Wednesday, 01 August 2012 16:34 Courtney Scott

Child prostitution has become a huge concern during Medellin's festival season, especially throughout the upcoming Feria de las Flores, reported newspaper El Espectador.

Medellin's most important cultural event of the city, the Flowers Festival (Feria de las Flores), begins Friday, August 3 and lasts until August 12. Events such as the Flowers Festival allegedly increase problems of prostitution throughout the city, due in part to an influx of tourists willing to pay higher amounts for virgin "paisitas," as young girls from Medellin are called.

Heads of criminal gangs that operate in Medellin will also pay up to approximately $3,000 for the services of prostitutes younger than 12 years of age. The "paisitas" are said to come from some of the city's poorest neighborhoods. Medellin's center is a known part of sex tourism routes within the country.

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/25365-alerts-high-for-child-prostitution-during-medellins-festival-season.html

[seabeyond]

1. then hold onto your daughters hand and good luck to all the little girls.

isnt that about disgusting.

[Frustratedlady]

2. Makes me wonder if those two girls from Iowa

may have been taken down there? They still haven't found them that I know of.