Child labor and child prostitution go hand-in-hand in Lebanon.
According to a recent NGO survey most boys/girls prostitutes were former child workers who start working at as young as 8 years old, critical period in a child’s life when they are most easily groomed/influenced.
However, what this article doesn’t tell you is that those children in the child trade in Lebanon, are not only Lebanese children, but also Palestinian, Syrian and Jordanian children.