Human Smuggling and Trafficking: The Modern Enslavement of Women
Women and children compromise the largest group of victims, and they are often physically and emotionally abused. Cases of Human Trafficking have been reported in all 50 U.S. States; anyone can be trafficked regardless of race, class, education, gender, age, or citizenship when forcefully coerced or enticed by false promises (unicef, 2016, para. 2). Human trafficking is a substantial issue for crime in the United States. Barbara Amaya was a victim of human trafficking for eight years and during those years she experienced a life that no 12 year old girl should ever have to live. She was abused, shot, stabbed, raped, kidnapped, trafficked, beaten, addicted to drugs, jailed and …show more content…
Trafficking in persons is a modern-day form of slavery, contains element of force, fraud, or coercion unless the victim is under 18 years of age and is involved in commercial sex acts. The countries and origin of human trafficking has quite a large range all over the world. The main reported origins are Mexico, South America, a few countries in Africa, and all over Europe. The main reported destinations are all over North America, Australia, and a couple small countries in Europe and Africa as well. Both origin-destination of human trafficking are found in China, India, Germany and in Pakistan. Sex trafficking is everywhere, and it involves young girls being sold around the world that are in bondage to sex traffickers. Traffickers can move their victims to different locations in the same country and can sell them to other trafficking organizations. The typical age of victims are aged from 8 to 18, some are young as 4 or 5. Not only are girls trafficked but boys can be too. 66% of women are trafficked around the world, 13% are girls, 12% are men and 9% are boys. Sex traffickers are very active in their own country, but can move their victim’s across the border into the United States. And the young girls are scared to contact authorities because they can be identified as illegal immigrants. When they are …show more content…
She spent the first 12 years of her life in North Virginia. Abused at 10 by her own family, Barbara was stepping into a dark world that can be hard to get out of. She recalls herself as a normal little girl before the abuse. She enjoyed normal activities for girls her age, but when she was abused she became depressed, stopped going to school and eventually ran away when she was 12. Sex traffickers target little girls who are lost, disoriented and who are damaged, and Barbara was a walking target. It didn’t take very long for traffickers to find her. She was found on the streets of Washington D.C. by a couple who seemed to care for her. They fed her, and took her in and treated her like one of their own. That is, until they initiated her into trafficking. The couple used her for months then sold her to a man named Moses. After Barbara was sold to him, he took her to New York and trafficked her for 8 years. During her time on the streets in New York were gruesome and dreadful. She became addicted to drugs and was no longer useful to the man who was trafficking her. So she was alone, and strung out until a methadone clinic named Anita had found her and given her treatment and helped Barbara find her sister who was living in Philadelphia and she was able to reunite with her
Women and children compromise the largest group of victims, and they are often physically and emotionally abused. Cases of Human Trafficking have been reported in all 50 U.S. States; anyone can be trafficked regardless of race, class, education, gender, age, or citizenship when forcefully coerced or enticed by false promises (unicef, 2016, para. 2). Human trafficking is a substantial issue for crime in the United States. Barbara Amaya was a victim of human trafficking for eight years and during those years she experienced a life that no 12 year old girl should ever have to live. She was abused, shot, stabbed, raped, kidnapped, trafficked, beaten, addicted to drugs, jailed and …show more content…
Trafficking in persons is a modern-day form of slavery, contains element of force, fraud, or coercion unless the victim is under 18 years of age and is involved in commercial sex acts. The countries and origin of human trafficking has quite a large range all over the world. The main reported origins are Mexico, South America, a few countries in Africa, and all over Europe. The main reported destinations are all over North America, Australia, and a couple small countries in Europe and Africa as well. Both origin-destination of human trafficking are found in China, India, Germany and in Pakistan. Sex trafficking is everywhere, and it involves young girls being sold around the world that are in bondage to sex traffickers. Traffickers can move their victims to different locations in the same country and can sell them to other trafficking organizations. The typical age of victims are aged from 8 to 18, some are young as 4 or 5. Not only are girls trafficked but boys can be too. 66% of women are trafficked around the world, 13% are girls, 12% are men and 9% are boys. Sex traffickers are very active in their own country, but can move their victim’s across the border into the United States. And the young girls are scared to contact authorities because they can be identified as illegal immigrants. When they are …show more content…
She spent the first 12 years of her life in North Virginia. Abused at 10 by her own family, Barbara was stepping into a dark world that can be hard to get out of. She recalls herself as a normal little girl before the abuse. She enjoyed normal activities for girls her age, but when she was abused she became depressed, stopped going to school and eventually ran away when she was 12. Sex traffickers target little girls who are lost, disoriented and who are damaged, and Barbara was a walking target. It didn’t take very long for traffickers to find her. She was found on the streets of Washington D.C. by a couple who seemed to care for her. They fed her, and took her in and treated her like one of their own. That is, until they initiated her into trafficking. The couple used her for months then sold her to a man named Moses. After Barbara was sold to him, he took her to New York and trafficked her for 8 years. During her time on the streets in New York were gruesome and dreadful. She became addicted to drugs and was no longer useful to the man who was trafficking her. So she was alone, and strung out until a methadone clinic named Anita had found her and given her treatment and helped Barbara find her sister who was living in Philadelphia and she was able to reunite with her