| Child
Trafficking |
GENERAL NOTES AND
OBSERVATIONS
* There were
no reports that persons were trafficked in, to, from, or within
the country. Nor is the country a transit point for traffic in persons.
(US Dept of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000, February 2001)
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| Children
in Crime |
GENERAL JUVENILE
CRIME STATISTICS
* In 1998 there
were 397 reported cases of juvenile crime, representing 23.10% of
all criminal cases. The specific offences were: 0 cases of murder
(0% of all murders), 6 cases of serious assault (17.00% of all cases),
134 cases of all types of theft (13.10% of all cases), 152 cases
of aggravated theft (35.70% of all cases), 0 cases of robbery and
violent theft (0% of all cases) ,152 cases of breaking and entering
(35.70% of all cases), 14 cases of theft of motor cars (22.20% of
all cases), 52 cases of other theft (9.70% of all cases), 5 cases
of fraud (4.40% of all cases), 0 cases of counterfeit currency offences
(0% of all cases), 80 cases of drug offences (48.20% of all cases)
(INTERPOL, International Crime Statistics
for 1998, citing National Statistics)
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