TV Review … Brazil: In the Shadow of the Stadiums

Brazil: In the Shadow of the Stadiums

There are lot of things wrong in Brazil, which is unless you have money, a nice home, a good job, and not one of the many poor people in the country.

Last night’s Panorama, Brazil: In the Shadow of the Stadiums was hard viewing as it looked into child prostitution around the World Cup stadiums it was shocking and sickening to watch.

The children in the programme where all under 14 and operated in full view of the police and with the full knowledge of their families who turn a blind eye because of the lack of money or the inability to control them. Pimps threaten their families if they don’t work for them and they are also at risk with the clients. Most are on drugs and see selling their bodies as the only way to paid for their habit.

Prostitution is not illegal in Brazil over the age of 18 but the law is openly flouted. The show proved how easy it was to book into a ‘love’ hotel when the presenter with the full agreement of child service booked in with a 13-year-old girl and just brushed past the guy on the reception with no trouble or question asked. The young then went on to tell the presenter girls as young as 10 even nine were selling their bodies.

Soon thousands upon thousands of football fans will be descending on the World Cup stadiums and the area round where sex is cheap. Brazil is beginning to wake up to the problem but it’s a case of too little too late with sex for sale etched into society. As long as there are people around willing to pay for under age sex particularly in the third world, there will always be young girls or boys forced or willing to be used in this despicable trade. It’s not just the World Cup over the next month there is the 2016 Olympics schedule for Brazil as well so will we see another Panorama on the same subject but a different event.

Any UK citizens under The Sexual Offences Act 2003 who commit sexual offences against children overseas will be prosecuted in the UK.