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Underage prostitutes are forcing experienced sex workers to go home hungry.
The young girls are taking business away from women who have been working the streets for years, says the Papatoetoe agency that helps prostitutes over 18 who want to leave the sex industry.
Te Aronga Hou Inaianei co-founder Mamatere Strickland says she has had to ask the Salvation Army to get food parcels for mothers who haven’t "had any luck" because of the number of young girls working.
"It’s a supply and demand issue. The younger the supply, the more competition for the older girls," the former sex worker says.
"I guess part of that mentality is the younger they are, the less likely they are to have infections.
"Older women are going home with nothing. It’s been a sad Christmas for many of them – the competition is just getting too much."
A sting by Counties Manukau police in the past month resulted in 25 men being arrested for buying sex from underage prostitutes.
Fifteen street workers, some as young as 13, were taken off the streets during Operation Capio.
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