Teenagers take for granted how privileged they are. To many, torture takes form for them as long work hours at Market Basket, or writing a five to eight page research paper to graduate. However for many others, especially girls, torture is being forced to have sex with as many as twenty men in under an hour, and being beaten if the men are unsatisfied with her. This torture, formally known as sex trafficking, is a world epidemic that must be stopped. There is no ‘typical’ trafficker. Traffickers can range from a single person, to a small groups of wealthy individuals, to massive nationwide organizations. Most traffickers are wealthy middle-classed couple who are usually highly educated in the region they reside (Aronowitz
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Physically, many of the women are constantly raped and terrorized, usually by gangs of men. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, hospitals are filled to the brim with brutalized women whose genitals cut off by knives or machetes (Simons and Zoldak 44). This horrible act could cause harm in even more areas than the affected, and if not treated, can scar irreversibly, or become severely infected. To keep the prostitutes captive, armed guards will beat and torture them; to exhaust them, the victims can work for more than twelve hours a day, six days a week. Some of the severely sadistic traffickers will brand or tattoo their prostitute with the debt owed, or if the trafficker is part of a gang, their ring’s logo (Behnke 40, …show more content…
Victims of this vile phenomenon should not have to feel like they cannot get help, nor should they feel they must stay victims, knowing they will be ridiculed by their loved ones or even jailed. Traffickers should not be able to get off scot-free or slapped on the wrist for their crimes. Tougher laws should be passed, and support systems need to be implemented. And after all is said and done, trafficked victims should be able to go home to their loving families and sleep soundly at night, knowing justice has and will be
Physically, many of the women are constantly raped and terrorized, usually by gangs of men. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, hospitals are filled to the brim with brutalized women whose genitals cut off by knives or machetes (Simons and Zoldak 44). This horrible act could cause harm in even more areas than the affected, and if not treated, can scar irreversibly, or become severely infected. To keep the prostitutes captive, armed guards will beat and torture them; to exhaust them, the victims can work for more than twelve hours a day, six days a week. Some of the severely sadistic traffickers will brand or tattoo their prostitute with the debt owed, or if the trafficker is part of a gang, their ring’s logo (Behnke 40, …show more content…
Victims of this vile phenomenon should not have to feel like they cannot get help, nor should they feel they must stay victims, knowing they will be ridiculed by their loved ones or even jailed. Traffickers should not be able to get off scot-free or slapped on the wrist for their crimes. Tougher laws should be passed, and support systems need to be implemented. And after all is said and done, trafficked victims should be able to go home to their loving families and sleep soundly at night, knowing justice has and will be