crackdown on 'sponsoring'

26th February 2010

'sponsoring' is a big problem in Poland

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Katowice police have started a campaign against teenage prostitution amid growing concern that increasing numbers of high-school girls are selling their bodies for fashionable clothes.

Police officers will tour schools and shopping malls warning girls that while prostitution might provide cash for clothes it brings with it many dangers.

“We do not want to teach children how to easily earn money, but to show them that prostitution is linked to drug addiction, alcoholism, venereal diseases, HIV / AIDS and trafficking in human beings,” said Sergeant Adrianna Mazur, the programme’s designer from the police in the southern city of Katowice.

The programme comes amid mounting eviden ...

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