Women of the United States are under siege due to the underground sex trade known as human trafficking. With increasing supply and demand for women and young children, these victims are being kidnapped and forced into modern day slavery. These slave traders are making billions of dollars off the bodies of these victims. The complications of discontinuing underground sex trade rings are due to massive economic funding it provides to sex traders and abductors. The constant development of new rings is making it near impossible for law enforcement to crack down on these malicious back door industries. This paper is a general analysis of human trafficking, the role of the United States law enforcement, perception of American citizens and the economic
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There is a record breaking 1.5 million victims in the North American region alone. A global rate of 20.9 million sexually trafficked women are currently captured and on average another 300,000 women are at risk ever day of being captured. This industry has over 9.5 billion in yearly sales in the United States. Abductors can make an estimated $150,000 -$200,000 per child per year with each child having 20-48 clients a day. The U.S. Department of State says, “If there were no demand for commercial sex, sex trafficking would not exist in the form it does today. This reality underscores the need for continued strong efforts to enact policies and promote cultural norms that disallow paying for sex. Too often, trafficking victims are wrongly discounted as “consenting” adults.” Within this statement they address that the demand for commercial sex is wrong and how the market itself should not exist in our …show more content…
The moral implications are factors that sometimes are overlooked. A personal friend of mine, Priscilla Lay, has had a first hand experience with human sex trafficking and this is her recount of the horrible situation. “As an adopted child from Puerto Rico I moved to the United States at the age of 13. With a troubled childhood eventually I started working at a strip club and hanging out with a rough crowd. I dated a bouncer at the strip club and eventually moved in with him. I had no idea that he did not care for me at all, but only the money he could make by selling me for sex. It wasn’t long until I realized that he was not the man I needed in my life and he was setting me up to be used. When I tired to leave him, he drugged me. When I woke up the next morning, I was bleeding, severely bruised and was devastated to find his prison number tattooed on my wrist. With six other young women chained up in the same room, I had no idea where I was and it soon became clear that I was a victim of sex trafficking. The constant parade of men coming to sexually assault me daily was pure torture. Constant sounds of beatings and rapes happening all around me. For almost four years of being held captive against my will, I was used and abused in every imaginable way; I knew I had to fight for my freedom. One night when the guards were distracted, I had the opportunity to make a run for it.
There is a record breaking 1.5 million victims in the North American region alone. A global rate of 20.9 million sexually trafficked women are currently captured and on average another 300,000 women are at risk ever day of being captured. This industry has over 9.5 billion in yearly sales in the United States. Abductors can make an estimated $150,000 -$200,000 per child per year with each child having 20-48 clients a day. The U.S. Department of State says, “If there were no demand for commercial sex, sex trafficking would not exist in the form it does today. This reality underscores the need for continued strong efforts to enact policies and promote cultural norms that disallow paying for sex. Too often, trafficking victims are wrongly discounted as “consenting” adults.” Within this statement they address that the demand for commercial sex is wrong and how the market itself should not exist in our …show more content…
The moral implications are factors that sometimes are overlooked. A personal friend of mine, Priscilla Lay, has had a first hand experience with human sex trafficking and this is her recount of the horrible situation. “As an adopted child from Puerto Rico I moved to the United States at the age of 13. With a troubled childhood eventually I started working at a strip club and hanging out with a rough crowd. I dated a bouncer at the strip club and eventually moved in with him. I had no idea that he did not care for me at all, but only the money he could make by selling me for sex. It wasn’t long until I realized that he was not the man I needed in my life and he was setting me up to be used. When I tired to leave him, he drugged me. When I woke up the next morning, I was bleeding, severely bruised and was devastated to find his prison number tattooed on my wrist. With six other young women chained up in the same room, I had no idea where I was and it soon became clear that I was a victim of sex trafficking. The constant parade of men coming to sexually assault me daily was pure torture. Constant sounds of beatings and rapes happening all around me. For almost four years of being held captive against my will, I was used and abused in every imaginable way; I knew I had to fight for my freedom. One night when the guards were distracted, I had the opportunity to make a run for it.