Crackdown on Child Sex Tour Organizers
February 4, 2007 ·
Travel agents organising child sex tours could face 20 years in jail under laws proposed by the WA Government. Attorney General Jim McGinty said the proposed laws would complement federal laws aimed at paedophiles who participate in child sex tours. Federal laws make it an offence for an Australian to have sex with a child under 16 in another country or promote and benefit from these activities. The changes were being planned for the Travel Agents Act and the Criminal Code to ensure that anyone knowingly organising a sex tour for child sex offenders would be severely punished.
