LOCAL GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS, PIT FALLS, AND STRUGGLES IN ADDRESSING JUVENILE PROSTITUTION IN CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY

Fahad  A. Mohammadali,; Sahary  A. Pandaag,; Marc Kevin  D. Cagaanan,; Khereen Ruth  P. Linaac,

LOCAL GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONS, PIT FALLS, AND STRUGGLES IN ADDRESSING JUVENILE PROSTITUTION IN CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY

Fahad A Mohammadali | Sahary A Pandaag | Marc Kevin D Cagaanan | Khereen Ruth P Linaac

Abstract:

Juvenile prostitution is becoming one of the biggest issues in the Philippines. It takes many appearances from stripping and indecent dance, massage, guest relations, mobile sex trade in streets and malls, on board docked ships or boats, and outright sex slavery in sex dens. Nobody really knows how many Filipino children are in the sex trade, but they could number up to 100,000, according to the International Labor Organization (Philippine News Agency, 2008).