I think caring for children is very important. Improved family communication is one solution to preventing girls from becoming involved in compensated dating, Chiu said. They are from all levels of socioeconomic classes, he said. Girls involved in compensated dating don't necessarily come from poor families, Chiu said. When the money from the first compensated date didn't cover the cost for the new phone, she went on a second paid date. She had her eye on an expensive cell phone. She said her parents wouldn't buy her a new one, so she thought she could earn some fast money with paid sex. One 14-year-old girl told him she started compensated dating when she lost her cell phone. Why do young girls get involved in compensated dating? The reasons vary from an unstable home life to a desire for material goods, Chiu said. 'When a court looks at sentencing, the greater the age difference, the more serious it (the sentence) is.' 'The law prohibits soliciting for immoral purpose,' said Stephen Hung, a criminal litigator with Pang, Wan & Choi. Prostitution is illegal in Hong Kong, and legal experts say that compensated dating is a form of prostitution. It is hard to quantify how big the problem is in Hong Kong because the business is conducted under the radar, he said.Д¬hiu believes the problem is getting worse because his caseload has doubled in the past two years. Even if they encounter the guys, if he is not good-looking, she can quit and say 'I don't do it.' They think they have a lot of power to control whether they do it or not, so they think of it very differently from prostitution.'Д¬hiu, the social worker, is currently working with about 20 girls who are trying to leave the world of compensated dating. The girls - even though they post their details on the Internet - they think they can quit.

'For the girls, they don't think so because they think they can quit anytime. Most girls who engage in compensated dating don't view themselves as prostitutes, said social worker Chiu Tak-Choi. I just thought I could always quit after a short time or whenever I wanted,' Sze said. I would relax when I wanted to buy something. I kept asking myself why I had to do this kind of thing to make money. Hong Kong hotel guests freed from flu quarantine.

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She said sometimes the customers would stray from the rules, asking for more sex or refusing to wear a condom. She charged them $350 for a date and clarified how many times she would have sex with them. She would set ground rules with clients on the phone first. Sze told CNN she knew a compensated date could go horribly wrong. A jury convicted him of murder and sentenced him to life in prison. The man, Ting Kai-Tai, killed the teenager, dismembered her body and flushed the remains down the toilet. Last year, a 16-year-old Hong Kong girl was killed in a gruesome murder after she went to a 24-year-old man's apartment for a compensated date. The practice can have deadly consequences. Watch young women describe why they do it В» Sze wanted the same for herself, so her classmates introduced her to Internet chat forums where she met male customers. She says she became jealous when she saw the designer clothes, bags and cosmetics they bought with the money they earned through compensated dating. Sze said she started compensated dating because many of her classmates at an all-girls school were doing it. More often than not, the date involves sex. I thought this was easy money, and that's why I continued doing this kind of thing.'ДЇor a year and a half, Sze was part of a growing social phenomenon among teens in Hong Kong called 'compensated dating,' a practice in which a young woman agrees to go on a date with a man for a fee. We just had sex, he paid, and then he left. 'Actually, I was a bit scared, but I knew this was the only way I could get money. We skipped the dinner part and went straight to the guest house for sex,' Sze recalled. 'My first customer was an ordinary man in his 40s. But Sze, now 19, wants young girls to hear her story so they never make the same mistake. Her father doesn't know what she did as a 16-year-old, and she hopes he never finds out. HONG KONG, China (CNN) - She doesn't want to be identified, except by her nickname 'Sze,' and she has a secret past.

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