Females all across the world are being forced into prostitution. Whether they are kidnapped or make the choice themselves to have sex for money. According to Ridley (2015), these young girls are kidnapped and taken to a hotel where they await their first customer. When their date shows up they put the money on the table and the girl does the job she was paid for and the date leaves. These girls are given a quota to meet. If they fail to earn what is expected of them in a night, they are punished. Ridley (2015) says this is often in the form of a belt rapped across their face from the hand of the kidnapper. Child prostitution often happens in hotels, airports, and truck stops. These areas are bringing in the pimps a collection of around $33,000
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This lifestyle is not always a choice for these girls, in some instances young females are being forced into prostitution. On an average day in the courtroom you will see a young female defendant escorted into the room with shackles around her ankles, she is dressed in flip flops and a jail issued jumpsuit, and she takes a seat at the appointed table up front awaiting the judge (Hansen, 2015). This sounds like an extreme scenario for these girls, but it no longer comes as a surprise to the local judges. The girl described above is 10-years old. She has been in and out of an Atlantic jail for months because she was an alleged prostitute, chronic runaway, and nobody knew what to do with her (Hansen, 2015). Children, like the one mentioned above, often make choices based on their home life or experiences they have had. If young girls have been sexually assaulted in their home it is more common for them to become a part of the sex trafficking industry. They are already used to the abuse that the pimps would enforce, and they would know how to live in this situation. In some instances, girls who grew up in a struggling household will turn to prostitution as a source of income. However, sometimes the income can be used for different things. Some of these girls have terrible effects from being involved in prostitution and they turn to drugs so they need an income to support their addiction. Other times, these girls might become pregnant and they need the income to support their family. This is where we meet Annika. While she was initially forced into prostitution, she later willingly decided to be a part of it because she was unable to find work to support herself and her eight month old son (Taylor, 2016). According to Taylor (2016), Annika was taken by a pimp when she followed her friend into the man’s car expecting a ride home. For three years Annika was a prostitute traveling with a
This lifestyle is not always a choice for these girls, in some instances young females are being forced into prostitution. On an average day in the courtroom you will see a young female defendant escorted into the room with shackles around her ankles, she is dressed in flip flops and a jail issued jumpsuit, and she takes a seat at the appointed table up front awaiting the judge (Hansen, 2015). This sounds like an extreme scenario for these girls, but it no longer comes as a surprise to the local judges. The girl described above is 10-years old. She has been in and out of an Atlantic jail for months because she was an alleged prostitute, chronic runaway, and nobody knew what to do with her (Hansen, 2015). Children, like the one mentioned above, often make choices based on their home life or experiences they have had. If young girls have been sexually assaulted in their home it is more common for them to become a part of the sex trafficking industry. They are already used to the abuse that the pimps would enforce, and they would know how to live in this situation. In some instances, girls who grew up in a struggling household will turn to prostitution as a source of income. However, sometimes the income can be used for different things. Some of these girls have terrible effects from being involved in prostitution and they turn to drugs so they need an income to support their addiction. Other times, these girls might become pregnant and they need the income to support their family. This is where we meet Annika. While she was initially forced into prostitution, she later willingly decided to be a part of it because she was unable to find work to support herself and her eight month old son (Taylor, 2016). According to Taylor (2016), Annika was taken by a pimp when she followed her friend into the man’s car expecting a ride home. For three years Annika was a prostitute traveling with a