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U-N special investigator Ofelia Calcetas-Santos condemned the growing...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eSpanish/Eng/Nat\u003cbr/\u003eChild prostitution in Guatemala is on the increase due to extreme poverty, broken homes and the increasing presence of international paedophile rings. \u003cbr/\u003eU-N special investigator Ofelia Calcetas-Santos condemned the growing problem while on a two week visit which is due to end Friday, and has called on Guatemala to take action. \u003cbr/\u003eHer findings are to be drafted in a formal recommendation to the government scheduled for April next year. \u003cbr/\u003eMichael is 11-years-old, hooked on crack and homeless.\u003cbr/\u003eShe sells her body in order to buy drugs and knows more than most 11-year-olds about the ever present risk of AIDS.\u003cbr/\u003eShe is no orphan but she has no home - her mother's boyfriend threatened her with a machete after she rejected his offer of money in return for sex. \u003cbr/\u003eFuture prospects are bleak for a life made tragic by the grown ups around her.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (Spanish) \u003cbr/\u003e\"He (her stepfather) told me once that he would give me 15 Quetzals (two U-S dollars) and a bag of apples in exchange for my body. I said no, and that I was going to tell my mother. He then told me that if I told my mother he would kill her with a machete and he was going to kill me too.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Michael, 11-year-old prostitute\u003cbr/\u003eMichelle's plight is common to thousands of youngsters in Guatemala who have grown up in poverty, many orphaned as a result of 36 years of civil war.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (Spanish) \u003cbr/\u003e(sound starts in former shot\u003cbr/\u003e\"I would prefer not to have sexual relations because I've seen many girls who have died from aids or from cancer that men pass on to them. That's why I don't like it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Michael, 11-year-old prostitute\u003cbr/\u003eThe worrying levels of child prostitution and child trafficking in Guatemala as a result have prompted calls from U-N special investigator Ofelia Calcetas-Santos this week for action. \u003cbr/\u003eAnd she described child drug abuse in Guatemala, often linked to child prostitution, as a cancer that is eating up children.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (Spanish) \u003cbr/\u003e\"I was smoking crack cocaine and I used to take him marihuana and he would pay me with crack cocaine and he would tell me if you want to have money, become a whore, then you'll have anything you like.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Nancy, 15-year-old prostitute\u003cbr/\u003eNancy's childhood has been a lonely and often dangerous one.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (Spanish) \u003cbr/\u003e\"Nobody is pointing at my head with a gun to force me to do what I'm doing. If I took it on it was because I wanted to and because they taught me how to do it. Otherwise, I wouldn't find myself in this situation.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Nancy, 15-year-old prostitute\u003cbr/\u003eTo make matters worse, Guatemala and other Central American nations have become popular destinations for paedophiles after a police crackdown in Asia.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE (Spanish) \u003cbr/\u003e\"We have proof that there is child trafficking from Central America into Guatemala. From Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras. And they bring them here, to Guatemala, to turn them into prostitutes. There is a commercial and sexual exploitation.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Bruce Harris, Director of Casa Alianza\u003cbr/\u003eCalcetas-Santos has confirmed to reporters some of those involved in the trafficking of children, often done under the guise of adoption overseas, are high-ranking government employees and wives of military officers or deputies.\u003cbr/\u003eCouples seeking babies pay up to 20-thousand U-S dollars in fees per adoption.\u003cbr/\u003eThere is little Guatemala's current law can do to prevent this but Calcetas-Santos is now urging for an international campaign on behalf of the country's young. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English) \u003cbr/\u003e\"My mandate has three concerns, one is the sale of children, two is prostitution of children and three is pornography of children.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Ofelia Calcetas-Santos, U-N special investigator\u003cbr/\u003eThe results of research by Calcetas-Santos are to be included in a report which is to be handed over to the government early next year. \u003cbr/\u003eBut already, it is clear - thousands of Guatemalan children have suffered enough to last them a life time.\u003cbr/\u003e Guatemala City, Guatemala, 26 July 1999 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot of Michael walking in the park\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various shots of Michael\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Michael, 11-year-old prostitute\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close up of Michael's hands\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Michael, 11-year-old prostitute (sound starts in former shot)\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide shot of Guatemala City's red light district with child walking by\u003cbr/\u003e7. Signs of nightclubs and hotels in red light district\u003cbr/\u003e8. Girl walking around red light district at night\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nancy, 15-year-old prostitute\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close up of Nancy's hands moving while she talks: \"There is a god there that helps us. Only he can help one's life.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nancy, 15-year-old-prostitute\u003cbr/\u003e12. Shot of Nancy's legs while leaving\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Bruce Harris, Director of Casa Alianza\u003cbr/\u003e14. Ofelia Calcetas, UN envoy, arriving in Palacio Nacional\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ofelia Calcetas-Santos, U-N special investigator\u003cbr/\u003e15. Various shots of child walking around red light district at night\u003cbr/\u003e16. 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