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Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation

Offenses of sexual abuse of children and young people and of profiting from it, including abuse itself, grooming, images of abuse, travel to abuse children abroad, the trafficking and prostitution of children and child marriage. An offense belongs here when the victim is a child. It excludes the sexual exploitation of adults, which sits in other groups. Entries placed here are Child Sexual Abuse, Child Grooming, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Child Pornography, Child Sex Tourism, Child Sex Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Marriage and Bacha Bazi.

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Sexual Grooming (Wikipedia)
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Sexual grooming is the action or behavior used to establish an emotional connection with a vulnerable person who is typically, but not always, under the age of consent (which varies by jurisdiction) and sometimes with the victim's family, to lower their inhibitions with the objective of sexual abuse.
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Child pornography (Wikipedia)
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    Child pornography (CP), also known as child sexual abuse material (CSAM), is erotic material that involves or depicts persons under the local age of majority or age of consent.
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    Child pornography (CP), also known as child sexual abuse material (CSAM), is erotic material that involves or depicts persons under the local age of majority or age of consent.
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Child Marriage (Wikipedia)
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Child marriage is a practice involving a marriage or domestic partnership, formal or informal, that includes an individual under 18 and an adult or other child.
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Child sex tourism, Wikipedia
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Child sex tourism (CST) is tourism for the purpose of engaging in the prostitution of children, which is commercially facilitated child sexual abuse.
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Child prostitution (Wikipedia)
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Child prostitution is prostitution involving a child, and it is a form of commercial sexual exploitation of children.
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USLegal, Inc.: Child Sexual Abuse Law and Legal Definition
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Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation.
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