According to data provided by SIPINNA, it is established that the System for the Integral Development of the Family affirms that more than 20 thousand minors were victims of prostitution, being sexual exploitation as the most frequent complaint in the cities of Tijuana, Acapulco, Cancun and Guadalajara. Details that 36 percent 18 of 50 of cases of sex tourism with children are committed by citizens from the United States and Canada, who come for short periods to develop pornographic material with Mexican children and return to their countries to market it.
There are also cases of citizens coming from England, Holland and Germany in search of having a sexual encounter with minors. Regarding cases of trafficking or sale of children between countries, SIPINNA stresses that this occurs at the borders of Mexico with the United States and Guatemala, although it is also known that Japanese citizens travel to Cancun and Guadalajara to take some girls in exchange for money.
It was pointed out that poverty is one of the factors that forces children to earn a living in whatever way, regardless of whether they suffer abuse and risk their health. Ricardo Bucio, Executive Secretary of SIPINNA, indicated that a monitoring plan is maintained in Quintana Roo, due to the fact that the authorities of this state activated the alert on the increase in child sex tourism.
Given this and according to data from the report The commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents in travel and tourism in Mexico, points out that in the tourist centers of Quintana Roo have been efforts to combat trafficking, prostitution and pornography with minors.
In the report, it is inferred that it was detected that middle and high school students are the ones who are involved in issues related to prostitution and pornography, being mainly men who access these types of issues.
