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“I’m just content to them”: Children living through sexual exploitation in Aotearoa New Zealand
This report is the result of seeking to better understand how sexual exploitation is experienced, recognised, and responded to in Aotearoa, from the perspective of those most directly affected. It also helps fill a major definitional and conceptual gap in Aotearoa’s understanding of child sexual exploitation, where the absence of a national framework contributes to fragmented practice, weak recognition, and inconsistent responses.
This research centres the voices of people who were groomed, coerced, filmed, touched, used, raped, and lied about — often repeatedly, and often in plain sight, here in Aotearoa. The immense value of participants’ contributions lies principally in the specificity of what they identified as system failure, and, even more vitally, what they identified as the opportunities for system repair and the protection of future victims.