NT: No evidence to support claims of child sex trade, police say

AAP General News (Australia)
04-09-2008
NT: No evidence to support claims of child sex trade, police say

Northern Territory police say there's no evidence to support claims of a child sex
trade .. at a remote mining town in the Northern Territory.

Indigenous leader GALARRWUY YUNUPINGU has claimed Aboriginal girls as young as 13 have
been having sex with non-indigenous workers for drugs .. alcohol .. taxi rides and cash.

He says 12 girls are currently working as child prostitutes at Nhulunbuy .. about 650
kilometres east of Darwin.

The reports prompted the federal government to send a child abuse taskforce to the
remote Arnhem Land town.

But Northern Territory Acting Assistant Police Commissioner COLLEEN GWYNNE says there's
no evidence to support the claims .. even though there is a rumour in Nhulunbuy these
things are occurring.

AAP RTV tr/wz/tm

KEYWORD: NHULUNBUY (DARWIN)

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