Serialized in the "Pall Mall Gazette" during July, 1885, the Maiden
Tribute of Modern Babylon created a sensation in Victorian London
with its shocking depiction of a rampant child sex trade thriving
in the nation's capital. It related stories of girls as young as
thirteen who had been inveigled into houses of ill repute by
scheming abductresses, where they were pressured, manipulated, or
even coerced into prostitution. There were rooms in London, the
"Gazette" revealed, that had been specially padded to stifle their
screams. In a zealous effort to demonstrate the horrifying ease
with which these hapless young girls were being bought and sold by
greedy flesh merchants, editor William T. Stead scandalized the
public by successfully purchasing a thirteen year-old girl from her
mother for the meager price of 5-a journalistic excess for which he
served three months in prison.
A controversial milestone in modern journalism, the Maiden
Tribute of Modern Babylon generated sufficient public outrage to
secure passage of the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885, which
raised the age of consent in the United Kingdom from thirteen to
sixteen.
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