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Ukrainian Police Write Notes to
Prostitutes' Parents
Ukrainian law enforcers are attempting to dampen growing prostitution by writing unpleasant notes to the parents of arrested streetwalkers, the Sehodnia newspaper reported Tuesday. The letter-writing campaign is aimed at reducing sex-for-hire in the former Soviet republic by bringing parental pressure to bear on prostitutes, said Aleksey Lazarenko, a Internal Ministry spokesman.
"We
inform the parents their daughter was arrested at the moment she was selling
her body," Lazarenko said.
"As
soon as the parents of one girl found out how their daughter was earning a
living, there was such a scandal in the household, that (the prostitute) had no
quiet at home for an entire week, and she quit the business," he said.
The
programme has had a wide-reaching effect on the prostitution industry
nationwide by reducing dramatically numbers of prostitutes on the street, as
most feared rows with their parents more than police, according to the report.
Prostitution
is technically illegal in Ukraine but laws against it are rarely enforced by
poorly-paid police. Economic hardship, drug addiction, and limited career
options for women have pushed tens of thousands of Ukrainian women to sell sex.
Ukraine`s
government has declared the situation a "national disgrace" but
nonetheless low-cst streetwalkers and bordellos are a common feature not just
of all major Ukrainian cities, but most small towns and even some remote
villages.
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