:00:00. > :00:00.This programme contains very strong language
:00:00. > :00:11.and scenes which some viewers may find disturbing.
:00:12. > :00:17.The world's biggest football tournament is a week away. Hosted by
:00:18. > :00:22.the world's most successful footballing nation. But in the
:00:23. > :00:28.shadow of a multi-million pound World Cup stadiums, there is a
:00:29. > :00:37.darker side to life in Brazil. A world of poverty, drugs, violence,
:00:38. > :00:59.and child exploitation. The number of children involved in
:01:00. > :01:20.prostitution in Brazil runs into the hundreds of thousands.
:01:21. > :01:27.Tonight, Panorama reveals the shame of a country where children openly
:01:28. > :01:34.tout the business on the streets. In full view of the police. Why don't I
:01:35. > :01:41.have to be afraid? Do the police never check?
:01:42. > :01:55.And where hotels flout the law banning underage prostitution.
:01:56. > :02:01.Even though they are victims of sexual exploitation, some of the
:02:02. > :02:07.children we've spoken to are happy to be identified on camera. With the
:02:08. > :02:11.advice of children's charities and with the consent and support of
:02:12. > :02:16.their parents, in the UK this film will show the faces of some of the
:02:17. > :02:33.victims. In order to highlight their plight.
:02:34. > :02:47.Sunset over Sao Paulo, the largest city in the southern hemisphere.
:02:48. > :02:53.Home to almost 20 million people. As darkness descends, young girls start
:02:54. > :03:04.to appear on the streets. They're here to sell their bodies.
:03:05. > :03:11.We've just spotted two young girls that appear to be prostitutes. They
:03:12. > :03:18.also looked like they're smoking crack cocaine. Prostitution is legal
:03:19. > :03:30.in Brazil but only for those over the age of 18. Among the girls on
:03:31. > :03:36.the streets is 14-year-old Joyce. This is your home? At her mother's
:03:37. > :03:40.invitation and with an aid worker present, Joyce agrees to show us
:03:41. > :03:44.where she lives. Her family are squatters in a half built abandoned
:03:45. > :03:49.tower block. Most of the block is incomplete darkness.
:03:50. > :03:57.Which apartment is yours, Joyce? This one up here? Yes.
:03:58. > :04:11.It's like a war zone. Hello. The building is full of drug dealers
:04:12. > :04:12.and crack addicts and we have to negotiate access with an armed gang
:04:13. > :04:35.who control the block. This is your house? This is
:04:36. > :04:39.unbelievable. I don't know how to describe it. It's like a derelict
:04:40. > :04:50.apartment block with people living in it. This is Joyce's home.
:04:51. > :05:04.Hello. Wow! Joyce's two young brothers, aged
:05:05. > :05:08.five and seven, have been left alone in the apartment. While their mother
:05:09. > :05:13.is out at work, Joyce is supposed to look after them but to get money to
:05:14. > :05:29.buy drugs, she often heads to the streets to sell herself.
:05:30. > :05:38.How much to the men pay you for sex? That's around ?13. Where do you have
:05:39. > :05:54.sex with them? Joyce's apartment is just a few
:05:55. > :06:01.hundred meters from Sao Paulo's brand-new stadium, where the World
:06:02. > :06:04.Cup will kick off next week. As thousands of football fans descend
:06:05. > :06:10.on the area, there is likely to be even more prostitution on the
:06:11. > :06:13.streets. Will a loss of children be selling sex during the World Cup? --
:06:14. > :06:33.a lot of children. Joyce and her friends are among a
:06:34. > :06:41.huge number of children involved in prostitution in Brazil, estimated in
:06:42. > :06:45.the hundreds of thousands. Despite government promises of a crackdown,
:06:46. > :06:51.charities say there's no sign of a decline in the run-up to the World
:06:52. > :06:55.Cup. The next day, we're invited back to
:06:56. > :06:58.the block to meet Joyce's mother Debra, and the true scale of the
:06:59. > :07:32.squalor is even more apparent. The family have squatted here for
:07:33. > :07:45.six months. And Deborah is struggling to cope.
:07:46. > :07:49.Deborah says Joyce's drug use has seen her behaviour become
:07:50. > :08:23.increasingly volatile. Deborah's trying to earn enough
:08:24. > :08:39.money to get her family out of the block as soon as possible.
:08:40. > :08:46.While living in the block, Deborah feels powerless to stop her
:08:47. > :08:50.daughter's drug taking. Along with the addicts, there are also several
:08:51. > :09:01.pimps here, controlling girls like Joyce.
:09:02. > :09:08.This human misery is found in a country which, until recently, at
:09:09. > :09:14.one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Yet around a fifth of
:09:15. > :09:20.the population in Sao Paulo still live in favelas, or slums. Some of
:09:21. > :09:23.the most extreme poverty lies in the shadow of the new ?250 million
:09:24. > :09:36.stadium. TRANSLATION: Miserable conditions,
:09:37. > :09:40.hunger, a lack of real public policies, inspection, prevention.
:09:41. > :09:47.That is why children are selling their bodies here in Brazil.
:09:48. > :09:50.Congresswoman Lilliam Sa has just released the findings of Brazil's
:09:51. > :09:55.first national parliamentary enquiries into child prostitution.
:09:56. > :10:03.Her research took her to all 12 World Cup cities. TRANSLATION: What
:10:04. > :10:07.we have seen during these trips left is flabbergasted because of sexual
:10:08. > :10:12.exploitation, sex tourism, are visible in Brazil in an endemic
:10:13. > :10:16.form, growing all the time, and we're fighting so that the
:10:17. > :10:22.normalisation, the acceptance of this sexual exploit Asian, does not
:10:23. > :10:32.jeopardise Brazilian childhood. -- exploitation. Part of that fight is
:10:33. > :10:39.with those cashing in on the child sex trade, including hoteliers.
:10:40. > :10:44.So-called love motels are often used by men who pick up underage girls.
:10:45. > :10:48.Rooms can be rented by the hour for just a few pounds. Even though it's
:10:49. > :10:54.illegal for these hotels to allow anybody inside who is under 18. With
:10:55. > :10:57.her mother's permission, Joyce offers to take me to one of the love
:10:58. > :11:04.motels she says she's visited before. I play the part of her
:11:05. > :11:06.client to put the law to the test. Charity workers stay in contact with
:11:07. > :11:21.us throughout filming. One hour. One hour.
:11:22. > :11:26.The receptionist should, by law, ask to see Joyce's proof of
:11:27. > :11:31.identification. With no questions asked, we're given a key to a
:11:32. > :11:39.bedroom. Joyce appears to know her way around the motel.
:11:40. > :11:55.And they provide a free condom with the room.
:11:56. > :11:59.Joyce tells me she is far from the youngest girl who comes to the motel
:12:00. > :12:31.with strangers. You told me they get violent. You've
:12:32. > :12:38.hurt your head and you're back. But got a scar on your back. Did a man
:12:39. > :12:59.do that to you? How did that happen? The charity workers who were with us
:13:00. > :13:06.as we filmed are now trying to improve Joyce's situation. There
:13:07. > :13:11.many more love motels around the Sao Paulo arena, one of 12 World Cup
:13:12. > :13:17.stadiums which have cost around ?2 billion to build all modern eyes.
:13:18. > :13:18.Joyce's mother Deborah is around many Brazilians angry at this vast
:13:19. > :13:51.expense. -- among many Brazilians. Deborah, do a lot of people feel,
:13:52. > :13:52.like you, that the government is wasting money, rather than helping
:13:53. > :14:07.families and children like Joyce? The government say that hosting the
:14:08. > :14:11.World Cup will boost the economy and the money they've spent on stadiums
:14:12. > :14:20.is tiny compared to what they're spending to tackle poverty. But in
:14:21. > :14:26.this football mad nation, widespread protests have overshadowed the
:14:27. > :14:31.build-up to the World Cup. We feel like we've been robbed by the
:14:32. > :14:37.politicians and fever. We have many problems that are not being solved.
:14:38. > :14:47.-- the politicians and FIFA. No jobs. No justice. We're angry
:14:48. > :14:52.because we lack a good education system, a good health system and
:14:53. > :15:01.reliable security. I guess people are just getting to develop it. The
:15:02. > :15:05.anger is targeted at how slowly Brazil's inequalities are being
:15:06. > :15:09.addressed. We headed to the poorest region of the country, the tropical
:15:10. > :15:13.north east, to visit Fortaleza, another World Cup venue.
:15:14. > :15:24.Behind the tourist facade, it's one of the world's most violent cities.
:15:25. > :15:29.Renovating the Arena Castelau has cost around ?150 million.
:15:30. > :15:32.Another impressive stadium right in the heart of another area well known
:15:33. > :15:36.for its poverty and child prostitution.
:15:37. > :15:46.Fortaleza is a favoured destination for sex tourists.
:15:47. > :15:53.We spot two girls on the street, right outside a police station.
:15:54. > :16:04.As we get close, it's clear they're very young.
:16:05. > :16:09.With a charity worker, we play the part of British tourists and
:16:10. > :16:13.they quickly offer us "a programme", the local slang for sex.
:16:14. > :16:52.So you have no idea? No identification? Having conversations
:16:53. > :16:57.like this with girls that look so young, some younger than others, but
:16:58. > :17:11.none of them have IDE. And how much would it be for a programme? That is
:17:12. > :17:19.30, ?40. Why don't I have to be afraid? Do the police never check? A
:17:20. > :17:20.police car has just gone by, I am talking to a very young girl, they
:17:21. > :17:40.don't take any notice. We soon hear further evidence
:17:41. > :17:43.the police turn a blind eye. In the heart of the tourist area
:17:44. > :17:45.by the seafront, we come across a young boy clearly
:17:46. > :17:58.touting for business with a friend. touting for business with a friend.
:17:59. > :18:02.We explain we're a film crew, and he agrees to talk to us
:18:03. > :18:07.as long as we protect his identity. He says he's actually 14
:18:08. > :18:12.and has been involved in prostitution since he was 11.
:18:13. > :18:20.Why are you a prostitute, why do you do this? You're so young.
:18:21. > :18:37.Do you not get scared, having sex with grown men?
:18:38. > :18:43.Is there a pimp? Do you have a pimp around here?
:18:44. > :19:12.Three pimps? The police keep walking past. They
:19:13. > :19:16.haven't enquired why we're talking. They don't seem to be interested
:19:17. > :19:22.that you are here selling sex. Why is that?
:19:23. > :19:45.We have no way of verifying these allegations, but the parliamentary
:19:46. > :19:46.inquiry into child prostitution has found that the Brazilian police
:19:47. > :20:10.are often part of the problem. TRANSLATION: I was shocked, because
:20:11. > :20:15.I found the police themselves cover these exploiters, the pimps, male
:20:16. > :20:17.and female. Impunity is rife. There is also a lack of effective
:20:18. > :20:25.supervision in the judiciary. The police child protection unit in
:20:26. > :20:33.Fortaleza insists it is tackling the issue of police complacency.
:20:34. > :20:40.TRANSLATION: This is not supposed to happen. This is not the guidance
:20:41. > :20:45.they are given. Recently, the Department of Public Security
:20:46. > :20:48.trained many police officers. It was a very productive training, exactly
:20:49. > :20:54.on this issue of child sexual exploitation. I'm not saying that
:20:55. > :20:59.every police officer is guilty of this, but we have filmed police
:21:00. > :21:04.officers walking past child prostitutes, turning a blind eye to
:21:05. > :21:08.what is going on. TRANSLATION: For me, this
:21:09. > :21:13.information is strange. In every incident involving a child or
:21:14. > :21:16.teenager involved in a situation of sexual exploitation, police officers
:21:17. > :21:22.immediately have the reported to the police child services. What is
:21:23. > :21:26.perhaps more shocking is some of the children that we have met and
:21:27. > :21:31.interviewed, they allege that some of the officers pay them for sex.
:21:32. > :21:38.What is your reaction to that? TRANSLATION: Because we have a very
:21:39. > :21:42.rigid Inspector General office, you can be sure that if a report like
:21:43. > :21:53.this reaches any inspector, this police officer will be removed.
:21:54. > :21:58.Fortaleza's police and social services take us on a patrol to show
:21:59. > :22:05.how they're dealing with child prostitution ahead of the World Cup.
:22:06. > :22:08.Even in daylight, young girls are selling themselves around the
:22:09. > :22:09.stadium. The youngest they find is
:22:10. > :22:24.14 years old. So we've just been told that
:22:25. > :22:27.the plan is now to take this girl back to her parents.
:22:28. > :22:30.All they seem able to do is warn these girls not to get involved
:22:31. > :22:34.in prostitution. There's only so much they can do.
:22:35. > :22:37.Social services admit resources are scarce, and we're told it's highly
:22:38. > :22:51.likely the 14-year-old will be back on the streets within days.
:22:52. > :22:55.On the luxurious beachfront, World Cup teams will be checking
:22:56. > :23:03.in in a few days' time. But just one block behind is one of
:23:04. > :23:07.the city's most dangerous favelas. It's called Big Black 8,
:23:08. > :23:11.slang for a .38 calibre gun. Aid worker Andrew Fanstone runs a
:23:12. > :23:17.project in the heart of the favela, helping children escape the cycle of
:23:18. > :23:21.drugs and prostitution. This is one of the only communities
:23:22. > :23:26.in the city that don't have any health workers coming here because
:23:27. > :23:33.of the violence. Ambulances won't enter here. Even a Coca-Cola truck
:23:34. > :23:34.didn't come in, and you know if a Coca-Cola truck doesn't arrive
:23:35. > :23:44.in a place it, it is dangerous. Even the police rarely enter the
:23:45. > :23:46.favela, which is controlled by drugs gangs.
:23:47. > :23:54.You look around and deals are taking place absolutely everywhere. And a
:23:55. > :23:59.lot of it is just... They have just bought a drugs right beside us. It
:24:00. > :24:08.is happening all around me. I have never seen anything like it.
:24:09. > :24:15.So it goes on down here, it keeps going. All of the drug barons are in
:24:16. > :24:25.the middle, protected. We are right in the middle here.
:24:26. > :24:33., and filming here, this is one of the drug dens they sit around in. --
:24:34. > :24:42.come and film in here. You can see the crack and stuff. This one is to
:24:43. > :24:45.burn it. This addict has recently taken the decision to send his
:24:46. > :25:04.one-year-old son away from the favela.
:25:05. > :25:11.Is someone coming to use... ? We had to leave, someone is coming here to
:25:12. > :25:16.use this crack them to take drugs, so we have to go.
:25:17. > :25:22.Everywhere we turn in the favela, we meet drug addicts. This is where
:25:23. > :25:27.this family lives. She has got one child but lives with her at the
:25:28. > :25:32.moment and her other sister, so these two ladies, unfortunately, use
:25:33. > :25:36.drugs during the day, crack cocaine. This is where it all starts, really,
:25:37. > :25:44.this is the factory where prostitution starts. God, it is just
:25:45. > :25:51.like a rubbish dump. It is, they live in a rubbish dump. It is a
:25:52. > :25:56.hole, really. With many of the parents on drugs, prostitution is
:25:57. > :26:01.common. Many of the children here, their family is involved in the
:26:02. > :26:12.business. There aren't, their mum, diagram. -- there aren't, their mum,
:26:13. > :26:15.their grand. For them, it is a way of life. We have to show them it is
:26:16. > :26:22.not right and give them the opportunity to change. There is a
:26:23. > :26:28.girl here just totally, totally out of it. She has obviously just done a
:26:29. > :26:39.hit of crack cocaine. Burying her head, crying, very distressed. She
:26:40. > :26:40.has got tuberculosis as well. Just a dark, damp environment and lots of
:26:41. > :27:00.drugs. There is a network of open sewers
:27:01. > :27:06.like this all over the favela. And when the heavens opened, as you can
:27:07. > :27:10.see, they overflow and all of the rubbish runs then this hill towards
:27:11. > :27:14.the end. It is not a place to be wandering around in bare feet and
:27:15. > :27:24.the stench of human excrement is quite overwhelming.
:27:25. > :27:27.The toxic mix of poverty, drug addiction and sexual exploitation
:27:28. > :27:39.leaves a terrible toll. Andrew takes this to a woman clearly on the edge.
:27:40. > :27:42.The 24-year-old has been a crack addict and involved in prostitution
:27:43. > :28:16.since she was 12. Throughout most of Aline's adult
:28:17. > :28:20.life, the Brazilian economy has been growing at an impressive rate. So
:28:21. > :28:29.where is the help for the many like her? The Government says it is
:28:30. > :28:33.spending vast amounts on national programmes to lift millions out of
:28:34. > :28:41.extreme poverty, but admits it is an enormous challenge. The most
:28:42. > :28:44.controversial part of Brazil's strategy is pacification, the
:28:45. > :28:52.attempt to take control of favela is. -- favelas.
:28:53. > :29:02.We have come to Rio de Janeiro. This is BOPE, the elite Military Police.
:29:03. > :29:05.On a patrol around one of their showcase projects, the recently
:29:06. > :29:12.pacified Villa Kennedy in the north of the city. Four years drug gangs
:29:13. > :29:17.have fought each other for control of favelas like this one. The idea
:29:18. > :29:24.of these operations is to try to drive the gangs out.
:29:25. > :29:29.BOPE entered a Villa Kennedy two months ago in an attempt to secure
:29:30. > :30:52.the favela. They say, job done. In taking over the favelas, the
:30:53. > :30:53.police believe they are liberating these communities, rather than
:30:54. > :31:23.controlling them. BOPE will soon withdraw from Villa
:31:24. > :31:30.Kennedy, handing over to the civilian police. If this operation
:31:31. > :31:34.goes to plan, the community will see the benefit of one of the largest
:31:35. > :31:39.welfare programmes in the world, which has already reached over 50
:31:40. > :31:40.million Brazilians. This, say the government, is the key to ending the
:31:41. > :31:51.exploitation of children. TRANSLATION: Overcoming all of this
:31:52. > :31:57.is going to have a direct effect on the inclusion of these children. It
:31:58. > :32:01.will put an end to this cycle of needing to enter into a socially
:32:02. > :32:07.unacceptable world in order to be able to survive.
:32:08. > :32:13.But such a visible armed presence has led to allegations of excessive
:32:14. > :32:22.force and brutality in some of the pacified favelas. This is one of the
:32:23. > :32:28.best-known favelas, dubbed the Gaza Strip due to its violent history. It
:32:29. > :32:32.was pacified in late 2012. No government PR to this time. The
:32:33. > :32:52.situation is tense from the moment we enter.
:32:53. > :33:01.They call these novellas pacified. It's not quite the real situation.
:33:02. > :33:04.-- these further letters. What you see here is a typical everyday
:33:05. > :33:08.occurrence where the police approach a man. They are nervous, he is
:33:09. > :33:14.nervous, and then residents start to throw rocks at the police. That's a
:33:15. > :33:17.prime example of the tensions here. There are two police officers
:33:18. > :34:07.arriving now, holding their guns. The police withdraw and the
:34:08. > :34:13.situation doesn't escalate further. We've no idea if the police had shot
:34:14. > :34:17.at the boys or not. Across the city, the number of people killed by the
:34:18. > :34:46.police has risen dramatically over the last year.
:34:47. > :34:53.Pacification has made a real difference in some favelas but so
:34:54. > :35:00.far, only 38 have been pacified in Rio out of an estimated 600. And
:35:01. > :35:02.there's little sign things are improving for hundreds of thousands
:35:03. > :35:05.of children across Brazil in prostitution. The many, it's
:35:06. > :35:20.business as usual. -- for many. We drive out on the BR116, the main
:35:21. > :35:25.highway running almost the entire length of Brazil, from Fortaleza in
:35:26. > :35:32.the north beyond Rio to the southern border. It is dubbed the highway to
:35:33. > :35:38.hell. That's because of the sheer number of children selling their
:35:39. > :35:45.bodies here. This highway is maybe 3000 miles long and a recent survey
:35:46. > :35:51.discovered almost 300 areas where child prostitution is taking place
:35:52. > :35:52.and that means, on average, children can be found offering sex nearly
:35:53. > :36:13.every ten miles. In an overnight truck park near the
:36:14. > :36:15.small town of Salguero, we see girls entering a bar full of truck
:36:16. > :36:27.drivers. We filmed them working the tables
:36:28. > :36:29.and flirting with the men. Several of the girls appear to be very
:36:30. > :36:44.young. Police patrols regularly checked out
:36:45. > :36:45.truck parks and bars along the highway looking for victims of
:36:46. > :37:16.exploitation. Just off the BR116, the local child
:37:17. > :37:20.protection service introduced us to children they are trying to help
:37:21. > :37:31.return to a normal life. This girl has just turned 12.
:37:32. > :37:42.So that's your house? A flower. And this is the sky. It's very good.
:37:43. > :37:47.She seems like a typical child but social services tell me how grim her
:37:48. > :38:23.childhood has been. Just down the road, we need another
:38:24. > :38:28.child, a 13-year-old. She's been diagnosed as HIV-positive. -- meet
:38:29. > :38:31.another child. Do you understand why people are worried about you going
:38:32. > :38:33.to the petrol station and bars and speaking to the truck drivers and
:38:34. > :38:46.spending time with them? Why'd you do what you do? It's so
:38:47. > :39:04.dangerous. And there is another huge danger for
:39:05. > :39:07.the children of the BR116. The Brazilian Parliamentary report
:39:08. > :39:15.highlights that children are being trafficked to World Cup host cities.
:39:16. > :39:18.TRANSLATION: We're going to have millions of tourists throughout
:39:19. > :39:22.Brazil but we have these sexual exploitation gangs which are going
:39:23. > :39:25.to try and use the tourists, some of whom come over here with a
:39:26. > :39:29.preconceived idea which was sold to them about Brazil, that here having
:39:30. > :39:40.sex with children is easy. This is 15-year-old Gabriella. She
:39:41. > :39:45.says that earlier this year she was lowered from a remote town 600 miles
:39:46. > :40:07.from Rio, inking she'd be working in a coffee shop. -- thinking.
:40:08. > :40:11.Once in Rio, she says she was forced to sell herself to tourists along
:40:12. > :40:32.Copacabana beach. Gabriella tells me that every penny
:40:33. > :40:45.she made through prostitution was taken by her pimps.
:40:46. > :40:52.After three weeks, Gabriella did manage to escape and contacted her
:40:53. > :40:56.mum One Direction. One Direction is now happy for her daughter to share
:40:57. > :41:28.her story with us to highlight the problem of trafficking. -- Alvani.
:41:29. > :41:33.Gabriella and her mother may be reunited. But in a country
:41:34. > :41:35.criticised for failing to tackle sexual exploitation, there are
:41:36. > :41:42.thousands more children with little hope of escaping the sex trade.
:41:43. > :41:45.The World Cup, just a week away now, has done more than anything to
:41:46. > :41:52.highlight the dramatic gap between Brazil's rich and poor.
:41:53. > :41:54.But perhaps there's no greater shame for Brazil's government than the
:41:55. > :42:00.many children involved in prostitution.
:42:01. > :42:05.They may be known as child prostitutes. The reality is they are
:42:06. > :42:20.simply victims. Since we first met 14-year-old
:42:21. > :42:25.Sexual exploitation is a cruel way to take away adolescence. It is a
:42:26. > :42:33.life lost. Since we first met 14-year-old
:42:34. > :42:36.Joyce, her case has been referred to a social worker from a children's
:42:37. > :42:38.charity. She and her family are clinging to the hope that life will
:42:39. > :43:24.soon change. 'I'm going on an adventure.'
:43:25. > :43:28.Wow. That is a long way.
:43:29. > :43:31.Quite a bit of it is on bikes. What are you going to do
:43:32. > :43:33.about your hair? They told me I had good technique,
:43:34. > :43:37.I'm quite happy with that. Is this the most adventurous thing
:43:38. > :43:42.you've ever done? Without a doubt.