The book Renting Lacy: A Story of America’s Prostituted Children is an informative story on an epidemic that is growing in the United States. The author Linda Smith founded the Shared Hope International organization that helps to fight sex trafficking worldwide. The book brings awareness to the horrors these kids face when forced into sex trafficking. The author after every chapter has a commentary that explains in more detail the world of these children. She explains how these children become a product, how these children get abducted, who the buyers are that want these children, etc.…
The documentary “Very Young Girls (Tween/Teen Sex Work)” by Nina Alvarez, gives us a deep perspective of the prostitution in New York City. It shows us the lives of many adolescents that for misfortune since very young ages have been victims of human trafficking. The documentary points out that the average ages for prostitution in New York are between the ages 13-and-14 years old. The main victims as the documentary shows are African-Americans. These girls are seduced, mistreated, and sold by pimps to men who wants to have sex.…
In the article “Because She Looks like a Child” by Kevin Bales, the author is deliberating the subject of child prostitution and sex trafficking that happens in Thailand. The author discusses the influence child prostitution and sex trafficking has on children who are forced into this. Siri, a fifteen-year-old child prostitute, is the emphasis of the article. She was sold by her parents as a means of economic steadiness. Siri is conscious of what prostitution and sex trafficking can possibly do to her while deliberating her current encounters including how many men she has had sex with at the brothel, and her worry about getting AIDS, and pregnant.…
(Totey, 2016). Not only does the film cover the social injustice of sex trafficking, it also covers the faithful journey that the characters…
He appeals to them through using the trafficked girl's age, stating “there was chance the girl was active in prostitution and had been since she was 15” (Mitchell 2). He shows how desperate the girl was for money, quoting Otto, “‘And she was trying to get away from her impoverished life. This is definitely not the way to do that’” (Mitchell 2). This allows readers to feel sympathy for the trafficked girl and helps them to connect with the victim, given that money is and always will be a relatable issue.…
They should be punished for the severity of their crime just like everyone else. The Constitution has many ways of discriminating against children and citizens underage. States can enact legislation that criminalizes underage drinking, or sexual contact between people under the age of majority, and they can, as they see fit, place whatever age limit they choose on the definition of a youth – 37 states including Arizona place the age of adult criminal responsibility at 18, 11 states place it at 17 and two states, New York and North Carolina deem any crime committed by a 16 year old or older to have been committed by an adult. Nowhere in the country can minors be accorded the right to bail (they must be released from custody into the care of a parent or guardian) or to a trial by jury of their peers. But minors everywhere are afforded the Fifth Amendment right to due process and representation by an attorney.…
In an article entitled “Tessa’s Story: Human Trafficking in America,” Venus Rodriguez tells the story of Tessa, a seven year old girl who was raped by her father and survived by viewing her body as not a part of herself. When she was a teenager, she was befriended by a guy named Jared who flattered her, bought her gifts, and made her feel special. She had no idea he was a pimp and that she would soon be on the street selling her body. Jared would withhold food if she did not meet her quota. Jared would drug her; he even convinced her that nobody would want her.…
In the article “Human Trafficking and the Terrible Price of Sex,” it was brought to light how prevalent human trafficking is in the world, including the United States. Human trafficking is the act of servitude. The reading expresses the exploitation of women through sex trafficking. “The Price of Sex,” is a documentary written by Chakarova and features stories of women tricked into human trafficking. The victims tell stories of how they had intentions of getting a good job as waitress or a maid, then find out they were tricked into sex work.…
Evelyn Chumbow makes her case that human trafficking is still around and it's bigger than ever. Evelyn was a victim of labor trafficking for 9 years in the United States, where she was abused and forced to serve as a slave (Chumbow). The US just had a National Slavery and human trafficking prevention month with many surveys. Evelyn was very shocked to see that there are very few amount of people who are aware that human trafficking exists to this day. She explains that we need to make an effort to help the victims who are trying to escape and survive (Chumbow).…
“For Colored Girls” The social problem displayed in the film that has been chosen for discussion is child abuse/domestic violence. Domestic violence is the willful intimidation of aggressive and physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and other abusive behavior as part of a systematic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another (What is domestic violence ?, n.d.). There had been numerous instances where the children had repeatedly been in the emergency room for unexplained bruises. The children would make excuses as to how they got the marks and scars.…
Rachel Lloyd’s literary work Girls Like Us is a memoir concerning the problem of sex trafficking. As she recounts her own story and the stories of girls that she has worked with in the sex industry over the years, she brings to light how relevant and dire the situation truly is. Hundreds of thousands of girls are constantly being bought for sex across the country. Little help is given to these girls because, although they are underage children, they are not seen as victims. They are seen as low-life criminals.…
In this film showing young girls’ family on process of getting their daughters to be married off or sell them off to begin prostitution career makes me feel desperate to be there to stop families from selling these girls. Knowing how normal it is for some countries to have young girls starting from age nine years old to start prostitution is sickening and terrifying. I just could not relate myself to them, and understand how they would feel because I have never experienced nor seen it in real life of these situations and I bet it would be much painful than how I imagine their lives would be. During the film, I was just surprised how some mothers are encouraging their daughters to begin prostitution, and even when school teacher was telling her that she can have better future earning more money without selling their bodies. Realizing how some countries have their traditional mindset yet to be broken still when it is 2016 worries me for women’s future…
The Justice Department services to actually help these victims have been unnoticed or in many cases have been neglected. This essay is to discuss existing researches and literature on sex trafficking in the United States and the growth of trafficking. It includes movies of which has been based on true events but also inspires the youth of making it out of the trade of the sex trafficking trade. It also includes an interview by Trooper Steven Kramer how he explains the statistics of the trade. Newspaper articles of how this event affect America as whole not just one area of America.…
This movie mentions issues like trafficking of women, Drugs, slave trade and the use of torture to extract information. The movie painted a picture of the real-life issue of trafficking. Women and children to this day are still being sold into slavery. The movie brings attention to this international issue. Like in the movie, European and American women tourists are surveilled by predators of the slave trade market.…
It can be said that human trafficking is the modern-day slavery. Human trafficking is the world’s fastest growing global crime. It involves transporting, recruiting, and harbouring of persons through the use of force, abduction, deception, abuse of power, and vulnerability of others for the purpose of exploitation and personal profit. Each year millions of women, men, and children are victims of this crime, however, especially children and women. Human trafficking is illegal worldwide but continues to occur everywhere.…