Sounds like these pricks are vying for Pope.
Child refugees are being sexually abused and extorted in Italy as the proportion of unaccompanied minors arriving on Europe’s shores reaches record highs.
Charities have long warned of smugglers abusing children, frequently forcing girls into prostitution to repay their “debts”, but teenage asylum seekers in Sicily say they have been targeted by local men.
Save the Children said the number of unaccompanied children has doubled in the past year, seeing vulnerable boys and girls thrown into “cycles of abuse”.
Traffickers saddle girls and young women with up to €50,000 (£43,000) in “debt” for the cost of their journeys across the Mediterranean before forcing them into prostitution and hard labour to pay it off.
Boys are forced into similar schemes, subjected to child labour and criminal activity including theft and drug dealing by gangs. Cont.
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