Just received this article from a good friend, Rob Flanegin:

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s idyllic coastline of white sands and
turquoise waters belies an alarming child sex industry, driven by
widespread acceptance and even approval of the vice, a report said on
Tuesday.

Up to 15,000 girls in four coastal districts are involved in
casual sex for cash – about 30 percent of all 12-18 year-olds in these areas
– according to a joint study by the U.N. children’s fund UNICEF and the
Kenyan government.  It said a further 2,000-3,000 girls and boys were engaged
in full-time sex work, some of them paid to perform the "most horrific
and abnormal acts".

Kenyans
topped the list of abusers, accounting for 38 percent of the clients, while
Italians, Germans and Swiss were the worst culprits among the tourists
representing 18 percent, 14 percent and 12 percent respectively.

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