There was a woman on the news today talking about how her 19yo female relative was arrested and is currently imprisoned in Peru for aiding in drug smuggling whilst she was on holiday from the UK. She was offered money to do so.

The relative was using words like "manipulated" and "bribed" to describe what happened to the 19yo. The message being that "naive children must be taught how to tell when they are being taken advantage of". The presenters and the relative were talking about how people at home perhaps should teach their children to not engage with shady characters in other countries offering you "quick money", etc.

What annoys me is if this was a 19yo male, there is no way this would be presented on the news as him being "manipulated" and "bribed"- he would be labelled a criminal. It would be his fault.