Prostitution of minors in France has risen by up 43 percent over the last four years, according to official figures published Friday. The government insists it remains committed to cracking down on exploitation networks, a decade after a landmark law made paying for sexual services a crime.

  • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    How do they measure this data? Do you mean “known cases of child sex trafficking raise by 43%”

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      1 hour ago

      They just track billionaires’ jet transponders. Apparently they’ve spent a lot of time in France after the island was shut down.

      Seriously though, you’re pretty much correct. It’s akin to the “cancer rates are rising dramatically” headlines, when the only thing that changed is our early detection methods got better. So now it is being caught more, and the number of known cases is rising.

    • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      5 hours ago

      They simply ask the politicians how many children they had sex with that year.