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  • Dateline NBC: Children for Sale

    The documentary followed up on a previous investigation into the child sex trade in Cambodia. Five years later, journalists examined the impact their investigation had had on the trade as a whole and in the lives of four girls who had been rescued in an undercover operation highlighted in the original report.

    Tags: sex trade; slavery; Cambodia; human rights; child abuse; brothel; undercover

    By Chris Hansen; Richard Greenberg; Cindy Babski

    NBC News Dateline

    2008

  • Children for Sale

    Dateline investigated the child sex trade in Cambodia. The story led to the prosecution of a Canadian man for purchasing sex with children there. The investigative team worked with a human rights group whose sting operation led to the arrest of pimps and the rescue of three dozen girls.

    Tags: sex trade; Cambodia; sex slavery; sex abuse; pedophilia; prostitution; forced prostitution

    By Richard Greenberg;Chris Hansen;Andrew Finkelstein;Allan Maraynes;David Corvo

    NBC News Dateline

    2005

  • Children for Sale

    Dateline teams up with the International Justice Mission, a human rights group, to investigate the business of selling children for sex. They focus on Cambodia where many sexual predators from around the world come to buy young children. Victims are interviewed as well as adult exploiters of children and various political figures comment on the problem.

    Tags: Child sex trade; human trafficking; international human rights; US Aid

    By Chris Hansen;Richard Greenberg;Andrew Finkelstien;Marc Rosenwasser;David Corvo

    NBC News Dateline

    2004

  • No title (id: 3543)

    WRC-TV (Washington, D.C.) exposes a computer bulletin board system used by men to find teen and pre-teen boys for sex; by breaking "The Switchboard's" password codes, the reporter was able to show how the system's subscribers also traded child pornography, Feb. 24 - 25, 1986.

    Tags: Tape Switchboard Balcom

    By None

    WRC-TV (Washington, D.C.)

    1986