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If he's still on the air that is. I'm surprised the slut comment is what did him in, but this earlier controversy largely slipped under the radar.
Since he went to the Dominican Republic with a bunch of guys, the only question is who he needed the viagra to party with: male or female prostitutes or one of his golf buddies?
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(23,720 posts)Whether he's straight or gay, he doesn't have to leave the country to have sex with adults.
International thugs overrun Dominican Republic, Libre says
Dominican Today, Santo Domingo, 8 August 2008
www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2008/8/8/28973/International-thugs-overrun-Dominican-Republic-Libre-says
[accessed 8 May 2011]
A National Statistic Office report in March revealed that from 2002 to 2005 more than 800 foreigners were prosecuted on drug charges, and there are also foreigners in child prostitution and abuse are also frequent, it said.
Moreover, it cites a Government Commission Against Child Abuse and Sexual Exploitation of 2003, which found that 65 percent of the molestation cases in Boca Chica and Puerto Plata are committed by foreigners. One of the most scandalous cases in that type of crime was that of a group of Spaniards arrested in 2006, charged with being part of a network of child prostitution on the Internet. The group came to the country as simple visitors and operated in tourist areas.
30,000 Haitian children smuggled annually
Nov 8, 2005 -- Source: China Daily
english.peopledaily.com.cn/200511/08/eng20051108_219788.html
[accessed 2 February 2011]
Around 30,000 Haitian children are illegally smuggled into the Dominican Republic every year to work as child prostitutes or be forced into other degrading occupations, UN and Organization of American States (OAS) officials said on Sunday. In Haiti itself, children are recruited as gang members or are tortured, kidnapped, sexually and physically abused, abandoned and traded like personal property.
Haitian Children Sold as Slave Laborers and Prostitutes
Gary Younge in Santo Domingo, The Guardian, September 22, 2005
At one time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 14 September 2011]
On market day in Dajabón, a bustling Dominican town on the Haitian border, you can pick up many bargains if you know where to look. You can haggle the price of a live chicken down to 40 pesos (72p); wrestle 10lb of macaroni from 60 to 50 pesos; and, with some discreet inquiries, buy a Haitian child for the equivalent of £54.22.
There is a thriving trade in Haitian children in the Dominican Republic, where they are mostly used for domestic service, agricultural work or prostitution. - htcp
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