Migrant children in northern France are forced into crime and prostitution on a daily basis to secure a place to stay in migrant camps or the promise of passage to Britain, the UN children’s agency has said.
Unicef said sexual exploitation, violence and forced labour were a constant threat for children travelling alone and urged the authorities to do more to protect them.
“We know this has been a long-running problem but it’s got much more extreme and severe in the last year,” said Melanie Teff, of Unicef UK. “We heard sad stories of girls charging €5 (£4) to be sexually exploited in order to get into the camp, or to start paying towards their passage to the UK,” she told Thomson Reuters.
Unicef said sexual exploitation, violence and forced labour were a constant threat for children travelling alone and urged the authorities to do more to protect them.
“We know this has been a long-running problem but it’s got much more extreme and severe in the last year,” said Melanie Teff, of Unicef UK. “We heard sad stories of girls charging €5 (£4) to be sexually exploited in order to get into the camp, or to start paying towards their passage to the UK,” she told Thomson Reuters.
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