Child Prostitution Increases By 40% In Eastern Region

Child prostitution menace in Koforidua has increased by 40% in Koforidua, the Eastern Regional capital. Some of the girls are recruited into the illicit act by some adult pimps to exploit them for financial gains. The girls aged between 12 and 19 years are mostly spotted around popular drinking spots, pubs, nightclubs, and around Legion Hall area in the evenings wearing seductive dresses soliciting sex for money. The Member of Parliament for New Juaben South Michael Okyere Baafi disturbed about the development. Speaking during the 31st Night Service at Methodist Church when he joined the Omanhene of New Juaben Daasebre…