Putting a Price Tag on Human Dignity
As I was walking down to downtown Brooklyn on a Saturday night, I noticed a few girls in the corner of a bar just anxiously waiting for somebody to pick them up. I’m not sure if they are victims of Human Trafficking but I definitely saw some red flags. For instance, I noticed that the girls looked like they were beaten because of the bruises on their arms and legs but who knows, I might be wrong. Also, I found it to be awkward for the girls to be wearing small skirts on 20 degree weather and carrying two cellphones. However I can’t judge someone on how they may look and therefore I may be incorrect. Although I saw these red flags, I didn’t do anything because I didn’t want to contact the police for something …show more content…
What I saw intrigued me on how many women I witnessed in these past couple of years doing similar things that the women I witnessed on that Saturday night. Not only I encountered this in Brooklyn but I encountered this in Manhattan, Queens, Long Island, and the Bronx. I came across a story in the internet and the title says “I was raped 43,200 times”. As I was scrolling down the article, I noticed that the girl’s name is Karla Jacinto and she said she was involved with human trafficking. She reported before she got involved with human trafficking, she was often getting abused along with getting rejected by her own mother. That was the reason why she left her home and hoped to find a better life with a man, but that didn’t turn out the way she wanted. In fact, it may be the worse decision she had ever made in her life. Karla Jacinto didn’t expect the man she loved forced her to be a prostitute and get raped 30 times a day, 7 days a week, for 4 years straight. She was not only forced to have sex she was also get beat up, take drugs, and would often starve to death. Not only in Mexico this is a problem but it’s a problem in the whole world. It’s ruining million of other people’s lives because almost nothing can be done to stop the people from purchasing these innocent victims and making them do inhumane work for …show more content…
An average age that would be sent for human trafficking is 13 years old and the average cost of a human is only 90 dollars, so if you really think about it almost everyone can afford these innocent people and use them as a money machine by forcing them to do agriculture, working at restaurants, as well as prostitution. Yet, I can see why this is a problem that still grows knowing that people in poor countries have to sell their children to get money. As well as how lots of families are abusing their kids almost forcing them out of the house, making them going out in the real world without any knowledge of what people might do to them and unfortunately some of them get involved with Human
As I was walking down to downtown Brooklyn on a Saturday night, I noticed a few girls in the corner of a bar just anxiously waiting for somebody to pick them up. I’m not sure if they are victims of Human Trafficking but I definitely saw some red flags. For instance, I noticed that the girls looked like they were beaten because of the bruises on their arms and legs but who knows, I might be wrong. Also, I found it to be awkward for the girls to be wearing small skirts on 20 degree weather and carrying two cellphones. However I can’t judge someone on how they may look and therefore I may be incorrect. Although I saw these red flags, I didn’t do anything because I didn’t want to contact the police for something …show more content…
What I saw intrigued me on how many women I witnessed in these past couple of years doing similar things that the women I witnessed on that Saturday night. Not only I encountered this in Brooklyn but I encountered this in Manhattan, Queens, Long Island, and the Bronx. I came across a story in the internet and the title says “I was raped 43,200 times”. As I was scrolling down the article, I noticed that the girl’s name is Karla Jacinto and she said she was involved with human trafficking. She reported before she got involved with human trafficking, she was often getting abused along with getting rejected by her own mother. That was the reason why she left her home and hoped to find a better life with a man, but that didn’t turn out the way she wanted. In fact, it may be the worse decision she had ever made in her life. Karla Jacinto didn’t expect the man she loved forced her to be a prostitute and get raped 30 times a day, 7 days a week, for 4 years straight. She was not only forced to have sex she was also get beat up, take drugs, and would often starve to death. Not only in Mexico this is a problem but it’s a problem in the whole world. It’s ruining million of other people’s lives because almost nothing can be done to stop the people from purchasing these innocent victims and making them do inhumane work for …show more content…
An average age that would be sent for human trafficking is 13 years old and the average cost of a human is only 90 dollars, so if you really think about it almost everyone can afford these innocent people and use them as a money machine by forcing them to do agriculture, working at restaurants, as well as prostitution. Yet, I can see why this is a problem that still grows knowing that people in poor countries have to sell their children to get money. As well as how lots of families are abusing their kids almost forcing them out of the house, making them going out in the real world without any knowledge of what people might do to them and unfortunately some of them get involved with Human