Of the hundreds of child prostitutes working in the area, only nine cases have been investigated.Ī new Czech-German-Polish commission to combat sex tourism started work recently. New laws forbid street prostitution in the city centre, and video cameras monitor the main streets.īut the laws are useless without police co-operation, of which there is none. Without them there would be no prostitution here." He says the town has introduced measures to curb the flow of sex tourists. "The sex tourists are 99 per cent German. "We are a little sensitive about this topic," says Petr Jaks, the deputy mayor of Cheb. You can find prostitutes all over Cheb: in the park on Evropska Street, in darkened doorways in the Roma district and in the 98 bordellos in the area, quite a number for a town with a population of 38,000. Most of his customers over the border are glued to their televisions, watching the German soccer team play Ukraine in a World Cup qualifier. "Many Germans, many horny, good for us," says Karci.īut business is slow for a Saturday night, says Jacek, looking around the empty car park.
"If my father knew what I do he would beat me," he says. Jacek gives his unemployed parents some of the money, telling them he won it in on slot machines. Why do they prostitute themselves? "For the money," says Karci, looking down at his low-slung trousers. On the weekend a lot of them come, one after another."
"The Germans" offer good money, says Jacek in broken German. "Masturbation, blow job, kissing, oral, anal," he says in a flat voice, continuing his lexicon on his other hand. Dark-haired and wearing an earring, Karci counts on his fingers the German words he has learned in his four years as a prostitute. Many of the child prostitutes are drawn from Cheb's large Roma population, like the two 13-year-old boys, Karci and Jacek, waiting in a deserted car park. "I don't want to have to give them a positive test result as well," she says. "But with no luck no one here wants to have anything to do with the prostitutes."Ī trained nurse, Schauer provides what care she can, and carries out blood tests on the older prostitutes. "For five years, we've been looking for a doctor that would be available for a few hours in the week," says Schauer. They work for Karo, a street project supported by the German Red Cross and the European Commission, and operate a drop-in centre where prostitutes can go to for medical treatment. Schauer and her colleagues distribute condoms and lubricant and teach prostitutes about the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases, even though they know that many of them are already infected with hepatitis, syphilis or HIV. They start by sniffing glue and move on to "piko", a cheap amphetamine that suppresses feelings of cold and hunger. Many of the children are homeless, often drug addicts, she says. Prostitution is legal in the Czech Republic from 15 years up, but the average age of prostitutes in the area is 14 or younger, according to local social workers.Ĭathrin Schauer has worked on the streets of Cheb for seven years. There are no official figures, but estimates run into the thousands. Nor is anyone sure how many prostitutes work in and around the town. Nobody knows when, exactly, "the Germans" started arriving in droves for sex with the children of Cheb.
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The prostitutes up and down the streets in Cheb refer to the drivers of the big cars not as men, or as customers, but as "the Germans". "The Germans like us to wear very little," she says, tottering in platform shoes, her eyes unfocused. With a dry, cutting wind blowing down the street, she tries to straighten her clothes - not hard to do when you are wearing just a miniskirt and a T-shirt. She looks 15 but, with her make-up smeared, it's hard to tell. The teenage girl returns half an hour later, DM50 (£20/€25.39) richer. Teenage girls, pre-pubescent boys and what's known as "the special" - children of three and four, so young that they don't offer themselves but are offered by others, for rent or purchase. A 10-minute drive from Germany and everything has a price. Bavaria is seven kilometres to the west, Saxony is 10 kilometres to the north. The men who go to the town know that to have sex with a child, you don't have to take a plane to Thailand, you just need to take your BMW over the border. Welcome to the child-prostitution capital of Europe. The girl climbs into the car and they disappear into the night.
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The lone driver rolls down the passenger-door window and speaks briefly to the teenage girl standing in the bitter cold.
A black BMW with a German licence plate and a baby chair on the back seat stops at a street corner. By 10 p.m., the shops are long shut, but the cars still arrive.
By day, the BMWs and Mercedes come to buy cheap cigarettes and alcohol. German cars are not unusual in the Czech border town of Cheb.
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