Posted on 09/26/2003 7:10:15 AM PDT by bedolido
A ban on allowing school classrooms to be used as brothels and strip bars has been ordered by education officials in Ukraine.
Headteachers in the country have often leased out excess space to firms to raise extra income for the school coffers.
No checks are made on how the headteachers choose to lease the space and in the past, bars and clubs have been opened on school property.
The latest discovery that brothels are plying their trade next to the school playground has prompted the education ministry to act and an investigation has started into what ways schools' excess space is being used.
The human rights pressure group that exposed the swindle said the biggest brothel had been operating at Odessa's School Number 5.
The brothel management had converted the cellar at the school and installed a sauna and a bar selling alcoholic drinks. They said that children could easily see from the playground as prostitutes and their clients arrived.
Investigators are now searching other schools to catalogue the extent of the abuse of school property and have threatened action against anyone making improper use of the facilities.
Story filed: 11:49 Friday 26th September 2003
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