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...Russia and Eastern Europe. As a following piece, we focused on a particularly terrible aspect of the problem, child prostitution. Our primary exhibit: a set of photographs taken in Moscow by freelance Russian photographer Alexey Ostrovskiy. Distributed first by Agence France-Presse, they purport to show a pimp named Sasha and two 11-year- old boys soliciting tricks near the Bolshoi Theater, an infamous pick-up spot. Some of the pictures, which showed the boys made up as girls, were too explicit to publish. The ones we did publish were awful enough, haunting and unforgettable...
Naturally, we had reported on the pictures' background before we published them: five independent sources had 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...
...Sasha, a scruffy-looking long-haired resident of Moscow, has a lucrative profession. He sells the sexual services of small boys. His base of 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...
...three boys wound up in Sasha's clutches when they were cast into the street during the social upheaval that followed the collapse of communism. The ex-collective farmworker dresses them up in girls' clothes and sells their favors, given eagerly, he maintains, for as little as $20 a day. "I am helping them," he insists, flashing gold teeth set into a pockmarked face. "This type of work is profitable. The boys are grateful...
...escape domineering 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...