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This is quite a random question, and I'm not sure where to post it but thought I'd give it a go here.

In 2003, I watched a documentary called 'Cutting Edge: Child Sex Trade'. It was filmed mainly in Romania and followed the lives of street children in Bucharest who are forced into prostitution.

I remember being totally shocked and horrified by this, but I didn't know how I could do anything to help, and as is generally the case, tried to put it to the back of my mind.

Since then, however, I've found myself thinking about it a lot. I remember one of the boys in it had tried to kill himself by setting himself on fire when he was twelve, and I can't get this out of my head.

If anyone knows anything about this, particularly what happened after the documentary was aired (ie. was anything done to help them?) I would really like to hear about it. It was so long ago and I wish that I'd followed it up at the time and actually done something myself - I wish I'd just flown over there to help!

So, ANY information would be much appreciated.

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Hi Ambermarie, the children featured on the programme were given information by the programme makers of a local charity which helps children like them, but as I am sure you understand, they couldn't make them take that help if they didn't want to. We did have helpline information after the programme which pointed people where to go for further information and help - if you have a look on the More4 site www.channel4.com/more4 under the programme page for Cutting Edge: Child Sex Trade you'll find links to The Centre for Social Justice and the Unicef:Care for victims of trafficking.
 
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