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Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation

Costa Rica


Prostitution

Case

A Swiss man and a German woman, Michael Oehem and Marian Kieff, were jailed for four years in May 1997 for operating a brothel where minors were prostituted. (Casa Alianza/Covenant House Latin America, "Casa Alianza Warns That Central America is New Sex Tourism Destination," 17 November 1997)

Two American men were arrested for running a sex tour/pedophilia operation in San Jose. They picked up foreign visitors from the airport and took them to a brothel in Los Angeles, a suburb of the capital. (Casa Alianza/Covenant House Latin America, "Casa Alianza Warns That Central America is New Sex Tourism Destination," 17 November 1997)


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Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation
Donna M. Hughes, Laura Joy Sporcic and Nadine Z. Mendelsohn