An intermediate school pupil selling himself for sex and a boarding house allegedly playing host to hookers have the residents of a notorious prostitution hotspot in Auckland city pleading for help. In Hunters Corner, Papatoetoe, security officer Mou Fameitau on Monday night saw a fa'afafine - males who behave as females - no older than 13 prostituting himself, dressed in the uniform of a local intermediate school.
He recognised me and ran off into an alleyway. Half were women, the others fa'afafine. Some locals said the situation was escalating.
As many as 40 prostitutes were now working in the area on busy nights. Auckland councillor George Wood said prostitutes had now moved into a boarding house on Kolmar Rd. Local politician and businesswoman Donna Lee planned to find out how much the street sex trade was costing businesses. They said streets were strewn with used condoms, litter and human waste, although some prostitutes said hostile members of the public who pelted them with missiles were responsible for the garbage.
McCracken said the solution was simple. He was "very supportive" of it but politicians were seeking legal advice from Crown Law. The last thing I heard they were getting a legal opinion on the bill. Local residents, including pensioners at an apartment block, were living in fear. New Zealand Herald. Subscribe to Premium. Sign In Register. On the go and no time to finish that story right now?
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