Reports have emerged from the Kenyan coastal town of Malindi that local girls in the town are being recruited into prostitution and pornography by tourists willing to pay handsomely for sex in secret locations at the beach.

It is said that the pornography is being done in a small abandoned cave close to the beach in which seaweed is used as mattress to avoid being discovered in places like hotels or guest houses.

Malindi is a town on the Galana River, lying on the Indian Ocean and it is about 120 kilometres northeast of Mombasa. They town has a conducive tourist attraction as a result of the Ocean. It beaches are nice and look like a tropical paradise.

Italian tourists are said to the people who patronize such services which they choose to have sex with the girls or allow them to do it with their pet dogs as they film it with their cameras.

It is a crime to engage in commercial sex trade in Kenya as well as in many African nations. But what makes this incident more appalling is the age of the girls who engage in the act.

The girls are said to be in the range of 12 to 17 years with majority of them being school drop-out as a result of poverty and lack of employment opportunities in the area.

An unnamed girl who spoke to the BBC Focus on Africa Program admitted engaging in the act, confirming that the tourists are mostly from Italy.

“I am 14 years old, my friend taught me how to do this business, because my father is dead and my mother has a lot of children. I go to the beach with my friends and the customers will come and choose the one they like. The customers are between the ages of 50 to 80 and lot of them comes from Italy”, the unnamed girl said.

A beach boy who has been serving as a link between the girls and the tourists boldly admitted recruiting some of the girls for the tourists to perform the act.

“Some tourists tell me that they like the small girls so I go to the town and talk to the girls and bring them here. Some of the girls are students while others are not and they are between the ages of 12 and 17”, he said.

He further said some tourists prefer to have sex with the girls while others too choose to allow their pet dogs do it while they watch and film.

“The tourists say their bloods are old and they need these young girls with fresh blood to warm them. If it is a tourist and a girl for a short time, the price is 50 Euro but if it is a girl and an animal, the price is 500 Dollars”, he said with some form of sadness in his voice.

Kenya is one of the countries in Africa that attracts a lot tourists and tourism is the second largest source of foreign exchange revenue in the country after agriculture.

The main tourist attractions in Kenya are photo safaris, national parks, game reserves, ancient mosques at Mombasa; the renowned scenery of the Great Rift Valley; the coffee plantations at Thika, Mt. Kilimanjaro and its beaches along the Indian Ocean.

Issaka Adams / NationalTurk Africa News

Writer’s Email Address: Adamsisska@googlemail.com

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