Comments on: Foreigners In Shanghai Bar Seize Five-Year-Old From Her Aunt, Thinking She Was Trying To Sell Them Sex

By: Apple’s Siri now speaks Chinese, it can’t locate Tiananmen Square but it will map out illegal prostitutes, possibly breaking the law

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:03:51 +0000

[...] expats might think prostitution is at every corner in China, to the general public prostitution is a pretty big deal and quite inappropriate for such [...]

By: KMG

KMG — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 02:09:14 +0000

reminds me of a child sex incident in the mid nineties in Beijing, some guy who worked for a western embassy was sent back home for taking the flower girls outside of Minders, Nashvile to spend the night with him in the embassy.

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Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:04:23 +0000

[...] his mind and began randomly attacking Chinese people in Guilin. And two foreigners in Shanghai confused a little girl selling them flowers for “six” kuai for a prostitute soliciting [...]

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:16:09 +0000

I lived in Linyi Shan Dong. The police had just cracked a child a duction ring in Hedong right where I was teaching.

70,000 abductions a year.

Why dont parents get kids frm orphanages ifthey want a kid? Because the kids in orphanages are often handicapped according to reports.

Police refuseo report these abductions be ause it loses face or thir city. So he parents go round showing decks of cards o other parents with their kids photo on it.

Sex trafficking is only one issue with kids in China.

India might be worse though..

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:09:48 +0000

No, your English is wrong. ‘The foreigner’ refers to a general idea of ‘ foreigner’ so it’s singular.

He isnt a couch surfer; he knows because he experienced underaged solicitation in three different countries. Hence ‘ not couch surfer’.

Your last comment was an ad hominem attack. And pay due regard o the seriouness of child prostitution.

Did you know that 70,000 kidsare abducted and oldin China every year? There is even a ‘ kids market’ in a Shan Dong village. Th polic ont investigate because it loses face or Chba.

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Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:53:56 +0000

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By: sascha

sascha — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:01:59 +0000

true. I admit I was doing a bit of trolling there. And I have never had that happen to me outside of SE Asia, so …

/highfive

By: Wow

Wow — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 05:09:53 +0000

Now I’ve always wondered in the situation you’ve just described if they are selling you sex, or if they’re hoping you’d take the child to a “better” place.

I do get out of China, I’ve traveled to some rural places in a number of countries, and in my opinion, usually they’re quite innocent and really all they want is a chance for a better life.

By: sascha

sascha — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 05:04:05 +0000

Nice try but that is some weak sauce

I biked through se Asia and came across villages so broke that as soon as they saw me the village turned out pushing a girl in front of them. And no i didnt.

You should get out more?

By: Wow

Wow — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 04:46:56 +0000

Wow, there are so many things wrong with your comment.
To name a few:
1) Why would you assume the people commenting are couch surfers? How do we know you’re not one yourself?
2) There are two foreigners, not one. Go read the article again.
3) You’ve been solicited for sex by children in China, Laos and Thailand. I hope they were at least older than 5 or 6 years old. Because if they weren’t, I can’t help but think those kids (and their aunt or pimps, whoever was telling them to solicit you for sex) thought you looked like a pedophile and would have liked the idea of sex with young children.

By: sascha

sascha — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 02:04:47 +0000

wow. all of you high and mighty couch surfers are jumping on THE FOREIGNER??!! Poverty sucks, but I have been solicited for sex by children in China, Laos, and Thailand and it’s a shock to the system far beyond the sorry spectacle of poverty . I’ll never forget the fact that my horror wasn’t reflected in their eyes, but in their actions. A lot of those kids are goners.

I would say all you “foreigners are stupid” commenters need to have it happen to you. I applaud their actions and am glad everything turned out all right.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:18:52 +0000

Anyone who has been in China for 6 months knows that most Chinese can’t say the short “i” sound and replace it with a short “e” sound. I always joke that many Chinese say 1,2,,3,4,5,sex. This why when you live in a country you should actually learn the language instead so you can resolve situations without getting the cops involved. This mistake is ridiculous at a time when foreigners aren’t held in very high regard.

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By: Li Mei

Li Mei — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:45:39 +0000

Unless the expats were drinking at 6:00 pm at night, the 5-year-old kid should have already been tucked away to sleep, not being exploited to sell flowers on the street. Was that really her aunt or was that kid stolen from iher village and parents? Would the police even care?

By: Gay_Chevara

Gay_Chevara — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:42:38 +0000

Maybe the laowais were ‘mistaken’ but I bet we don’t see any flower-girls in Shanghai bars for a couple of weeks.

Misdirected and ill-informed they may or may not have been, but they may put more focus on children being used to hawk money on the streets.

If so, bloody well done.