Peru is the number 1 country in South America with the highest child exploitation, with 21.8%

There are supposed to be laws that should regulate these situations but they don't. If you are in Lima, you will see that it is common to see children at traffic lights, on pedestrian bridges, outside supermarkets, outside shopping centers or on any sidewalk with a box of candy begging for alms, you will even think "they are simply children of limited resources." , they live on the street or are orphans " but the reality is that this is not the case, it is very true that in Peru there are people in extreme poverty, but I will explain why it is not always the norm for a child to be begging. Sometimes it turns out, and quite cruel to tell the truth, that these children find themselves "working" because their own mothers send them to beg. I explain a scenario that I see every day and in different people (I want to note that I am not going to upload photos of these people out of respect for their privacy and because it would be disrespectful of me to take photos without their consent): A mother with 3 10-year-old children , approximately 8 and 6 years old, leave their house and go to some district of the city that is middle/upper or middle class, the lady comfortably sits under a tree that gives her good shade, while her son 10 years old sends him to beg on public transportation either by selling candy or singing and dancing to typical country music, this child spends hours wandering alone around the district, every once in a while he has to go to his mother to give her ALL the money that has been raised, meanwhile the younger brothers go together holding hands, doing the same as their older brother, or sometimes they have to go to a traffic light and go from car to car to ask for alms when the light is red. And where has his mother been all this time? She sitting watching tiktok and in worse scenarios drunk. The unfortunate thing about this case is that it is not a single particular case, there are many, it seems to be the norm, it is terrifying to see how common it is, during the school vacation time the rate increases since people from the provinces head to the capital to carry out the same modus operandi that I already mentioned, there is no public bus that you use and there are no children asking for money. The million dollar question perhaps, and the father of these children? Do you agree? Well, no one knows, the rate of paternal abandonment is quite high.

(photo taken from the internet) Thinking about this made me investigate the rates of family and sexual violence experienced by these innocent creatures and the population in general, but since they were the most vulnerable, not to mention white slavery, I became paranoid just thinking about it. Who protects those children? Perhaps with the title they assumed that I was referring to children in a factory, but it is just as negligent, I understand that children in the province are also forced to work in the fields, without the right to reply, many of them do not have access to an education, Even a large percentage does not speak Spanish since their mother tongue is Quechua.

(photo taken from the internet)

Below I will leave the statistics on family and sexual violence and white trafficking. Reference: https://m.inei.gob.pe/biblioteca-virtual/boletines/estadisticas-de-seguro-ciudadana/1/#lista

Of course these figures are only the "registered" cases, I would have liked to get the unofficial numbers since they are the closest to reality and the percentage would increase exponentially. It is also the case that thousands of people do not make the respective complaints out of fear or ignorance. In Peru, machismo is very common, not only of the man being a provider and the one who does not perform household chores, but also the one who performs authority through physical, emotional, economic and sexual violence, therefore it is unfortunate that the victims feel guilty and decide to remain silent, lower the pretext that "he is the man of the house and only he is right" (yes, I have heard that phrase verbatim). Extra anecdote: I was at the bus stop and there was a girl from the province of Huancavelica, I had an allergy, my eyes were watering and red, she came up to me just to ask me "are you sad because your husband hit you?" I said no and explained to him what was happening to me. I was surprised by the naturalness with which he asked, as if it were something "normal" or a "common" or "everyday" reason; Normally, when I have allergies, they tend to think that I'm high on weed, especially when I was at university, or that I was crying for some indifferent reason, nothing in particular. I will never forget that little girl's face, how innocently she lives an adult responsibility.