Malawi government has warned that tourists luring underage girls into sexual exploitation would be prosecuted and even deported.
There worries that
the southern African country is becoming a magnet for pedophiles with
rising child sex tourism in tourism attraction areas of Mangochi and
other lakeshore districts in the country.
Department of Social Welfare in the Ministry of Gender, Children,
Disability and Social Welfare has learnt during monitoring visit
officials from UNICEF, ministries of gender and information made to
Dzimwe Community Radio in Monkey Bay, Mangochi that some tourists
especially of European origin indulge into sex with little girls and
boys living in tourism attraction areas.
Principal social welfare officer responsible for family and child
welfare, Dominic Misomali said: "It is not normal to sleep with a girl or
a boy aged 10 or 12 because the age gap between that male or female
tourist and the child is very wide."
He said communities have powers to report such cases straight to police
or courts, saying that is "total exploitation and abuse".
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