Human Trafficking Is Affecting Young Children

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The government passing stricter laws and the people who employ children to work and take away their childhood should be punished, this is how human trafficking can be stopped. The first way, to stop human trafficking is understand how children are recruited. Next way is to look for the sign after children are recruited. Another way is to pass stricter laws of ‘johns’, so they dont keeping repeating what they are already doing. At the same time if human trafficking was stopped then there would be less unwanted pregnancies and less people with sexual diseases. Finally the after effects human trafficking has on adults who are trying to fix back into society. Never realize how much human trafficking affect young children or that child labor was

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