Crackdown on sex tourism

LONDON - A Bill to crackdown on the organisers of sex tourism, where paedophiles from Britain take holidays in Third World countries…

LONDON - A Bill to crackdown on the organisers of sex tourism, where paedophiles from Britain take holidays in Third World countries to haven with child prostitutes, was by MPs yesterday.

The government reacted coolly to calls for it to go further and take swift action to ensure so called "sex tourists" could be prosecuted in Britain for crimes against children committed abroad.

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