Child trafficking record attacked

IRELAND has one of the worst track records in the western world for combating sex trafficking of children, an international survey has found.

ECPAT, the global body which fights child prostitution and pornography, graded and ranked countries around the world according to the efforts they were making to address the trafficking of children across their borders.

While it found that Ireland had made “some progress” in the area, it still placed this country at the bottom of that category.