Word: marike
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...Marik by then had said the opposite to other journalists. Why? we asked him. Because, he said, he had been told by Sasha not to admit to their illegal $ behavior. Reasonable enough. Of course, it is also reasonable to be skeptical of a source who shapes his story to his audience...
...confirmed to our Moscow correspondents that Sasha is a pimp, that young boys are part of his "ring," that they work in the Bolshoi Theater area and other places. We could not then speak to the boys, who were said to be out of Moscow. But later the boy Marik (at left in both pictures) confirmed to our Moscow bureau that, yes, he did work with Sasha as a prostitute and, yes, some of his customers liked him to dress up as a girl. Yes, those were the pictures; no, he was not paid to be in them...
...operations is a garden in front of Moscow's magnificent Bolshoi Theatre, where both local and foreign clients know to seek him out. Sasha pimps for a number of male teenagers who hang out with him near the Bolshoi, but his main "team" consists of three younger boys -- Marik, 8, and Volodya and Dima, both...
...exploitation of Marik, Volodya and Dima exemplifies the single most unsavory element of the worldwide growth in the sex trade: an explosion in child prostitution, driven in part by the fear of AIDS. In Moscow alone an estimated 1,000 boys and girls of tender age are selling their bodies. Three years ago, police say, there were only a very few. A similar rise in child prostitution has occurred in other Russian and East European cities. In the ( Third World the numbers are also staggering: an estimated 800,000 underage prostitutes in Thailand, 400,000 in India...
...parents or because they are being physically or sexually abused, or they are kicked out because their parents can't or don't want to take care of them. Some children fall into prostitution through abduction or trickery. Easy prey, they become chattel for the sex merchants. Sasha says Marik was sold to him for a case of vodka, while he found Volodya abandoned at the Moscow railway station -- together with thousands of other youngsters who have turned the terminal into a street urchin's paradise. Once victimized by the violent gangsters and pimps who control the sex trade, most...