Please correct me if I am wrong. It seems there are two different sets of problems under this genre. One is the underage girls from guatemala and other places who are recruited to come to the tourist areas to work. I suspect many were in that trade in their home country. Could you please tell me the age of consent in our neighboring countries to help shed some light on the depth of the problem. A recent poster on another board suggested the missing Maya children in the PG croc disaster were really kidnapped by human traffickers which I find most unlikely and not exactly good press. I dont see the traffickers going into the villages with a net to catch girls and smuggling them to Belize, I would imagine most are experienced and easy to recruit.
The second and worse (to me) set of problems is the sexual exploitation and molestation of Belize children by usually their own family members. Of course both sets of problems would have different solutions.
Please correct me where I am wrong. I want to understand this problem better.