HA NOI — It keeps teens off the streets and away from drink and drugs but online chatting isn’t always as innocent as it seems, as recent cases of child trafficking in Viet Nam have proved.
In the country, poverty and lack of information make children vulnerable to human traffickers but in the city, where most children have access to the Internet, it’s online chatting.
When asked what she knows about her daughter’s online friends, Tran Anh Nguyet, a resident in Ton Duc Thang Street, Ha Noi, says she rarely talks to her 15-year-old daughter about it.
"My husband and I are busy all day, we only spend our time in the evening talking to her about her study at school. She seems fine with that. She enjoys sitting in front of the computer and I think it’s better than hanging around on the street like many other youngsters," she says.
Up to now, like many other parents, Nguyet hasn’t considered online chatting dangerous. He daughter chats to friends and that’s that. But in reality, anyone can join a chatroom. Young men can chat to girls a couple of times, solder their relationship with the help of webcams and voicechat and ask to meet up. It’s that easy.
Last year, around ten cases of child trafficking were brought to Ha Noi’s People’s Court. Young girls had been sold to brothels, mostly in China. Every one of them had been enticed via the Internet.
Among the perpetrators, Do Van Tham from Bac Giang Province, along with five other men, tricked and sold six young girls to pimps in China from 2004 to 2006.
In another case, Nguyen Van Thanh, 21, and Tran Duy Giang, 18, tricked five girls and sold them to Chinese men. The youngest was only 15 years old.
more info->Viet Nam News
In the country, poverty and lack of information make children vulnerable to human traffickers but in the city, where most children have access to the Internet, it’s online chatting.
When asked what she knows about her daughter’s online friends, Tran Anh Nguyet, a resident in Ton Duc Thang Street, Ha Noi, says she rarely talks to her 15-year-old daughter about it.
"My husband and I are busy all day, we only spend our time in the evening talking to her about her study at school. She seems fine with that. She enjoys sitting in front of the computer and I think it’s better than hanging around on the street like many other youngsters," she says.
Up to now, like many other parents, Nguyet hasn’t considered online chatting dangerous. He daughter chats to friends and that’s that. But in reality, anyone can join a chatroom. Young men can chat to girls a couple of times, solder their relationship with the help of webcams and voicechat and ask to meet up. It’s that easy.
Last year, around ten cases of child trafficking were brought to Ha Noi’s People’s Court. Young girls had been sold to brothels, mostly in China. Every one of them had been enticed via the Internet.
Among the perpetrators, Do Van Tham from Bac Giang Province, along with five other men, tricked and sold six young girls to pimps in China from 2004 to 2006.
In another case, Nguyen Van Thanh, 21, and Tran Duy Giang, 18, tricked five girls and sold them to Chinese men. The youngest was only 15 years old.
more info->Viet Nam News
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