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Well, Christchurch is NZ's child sex capital
Didn't she hear that the end is nigh? Why is she making more babies?
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"Operation City Door" Auckland
Police are worried by a rise in underage prostitution in downtown Auckland, where girls as young as 12 are selling themselves for sex.
Senior Constable Mark Riddell of the Auckland central police youth action team said that in the past six weeks operation City Door had identified at least 13 girls aged under 16 as active prostitutes.
Many of them work from City Rd, which runs between Queen St and Symonds St.
Mr Riddell calls the street a "young red light area".
In the past two weeks, Mr Riddell and his team have taken five underage girls off the streets and put them into Child, Youth and Family custody.
But he said many of the girls escaped from CYF and went straight back on the street.
"Kids will run away on the same night we pick them up. On some occasions, they've got back to the city before we've got back out on the road." One of the girls, who started working as a prostitute when she was 12 and had never been to high school, said she had been picked up by a car full of men and raped only days earlier. …
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10651252
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