Child Sex Trafficking: A Disturbing Reality
I recently read a book by Ellen Hopkins called “Tricks”. She’s one of my favorite authors, and in the book there are five teenage characters. All five of the characters have a messed up home with parents who are alcoholics, drug addicts, etc. These teens want to get out, they want to feel loved, and they want to become independent. Unfortunately, instead they are drawn into the world of prostitution.
When I was maybe 16 or so I discovered child sex trafficking wasn’t something that happened only in other countries. I learned it happens in America, and very often as well. I was ignorant to think America was a place where this didn’t happen, or to think America was safe from this kind of criminal activity and predators. Child sex trafficking is something that happens every day in almost every state and every neighborhood, across America. “ Young children and woman are being trafficked like kids who trade baseball cards.”
Trafficking is the manufacturing of children for the sex trade and is the second most lucrative crime in the world. Children and teens, boys and girls, are sold and passed on from exploiter to exploiter for …show more content…
Online there are special key words traffickers use to sell children for sex, such as “sweet”, “innocent”, “petite”, and “fresh” which child rapists and pedophiles look for. The pedophiles who seek out girls on these websites rage from twenty to eighty years old, most who have families and children of their own. Some will meet at a motel down the street, and some will use airports as a way to get in and out quickly to avoid getting caught. They fly in, meet with the girl, and then fly out making it difficult for authorities to get them into custody or even track them
I recently read a book by Ellen Hopkins called “Tricks”. She’s one of my favorite authors, and in the book there are five teenage characters. All five of the characters have a messed up home with parents who are alcoholics, drug addicts, etc. These teens want to get out, they want to feel loved, and they want to become independent. Unfortunately, instead they are drawn into the world of prostitution.
When I was maybe 16 or so I discovered child sex trafficking wasn’t something that happened only in other countries. I learned it happens in America, and very often as well. I was ignorant to think America was a place where this didn’t happen, or to think America was safe from this kind of criminal activity and predators. Child sex trafficking is something that happens every day in almost every state and every neighborhood, across America. “ Young children and woman are being trafficked like kids who trade baseball cards.”
Trafficking is the manufacturing of children for the sex trade and is the second most lucrative crime in the world. Children and teens, boys and girls, are sold and passed on from exploiter to exploiter for …show more content…
Online there are special key words traffickers use to sell children for sex, such as “sweet”, “innocent”, “petite”, and “fresh” which child rapists and pedophiles look for. The pedophiles who seek out girls on these websites rage from twenty to eighty years old, most who have families and children of their own. Some will meet at a motel down the street, and some will use airports as a way to get in and out quickly to avoid getting caught. They fly in, meet with the girl, and then fly out making it difficult for authorities to get them into custody or even track them