Child sex tourism is travel undertaken specifically to engage in child prostitution, described as commercially facilitated child sexual abuse, with an estimated two million children affected globally each year. Victims face severe harms including sexually transmitted infections, HIV and AIDS, drug addiction, pregnancy, malnutrition and social ostracism. At least thirty eight countries have enacted extraterritorial laws specifically enabling prosecution of their own citizens for child sexual abuse committed abroad, and by May 2016, 173 countries had ratified the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography obligating them to criminalize the conduct domestically. National laws targeting it include the United States' PROTECT Act of 2003, the United Kingdom's Sexual Offences Act 2003 and Australia's Crimes (Child Sex Tourism) Amendment Act of 1994, which carries sentences of up to twenty five years.
Facts
Typical PenaltyUnder the United States PROTECT Act penalties were doubled from up to 15 years in prison to up to 30 years in prison. 1 Classification
Offense GradeSerious or Indictable Offense 1 Connections
Has Offense Grade
Entity-backed identity for the offense-grade enum value this offense already carries, resolved to a crime concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The offense-grade fact itself stays on the offense unchanged.
Sources
1. Child sex tourism, Wikipedia
United States, Extraterritorial jurisdictionQuote, United States, Extraterritorial jurisdiction
Penalties were doubled from up to 15 years in prison to up to 30 years in prison.
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