Human Trafficking
Abducted from her driveway Debbie, "a fifteen-year-old girl, is a middle child in a close-knit Air Force family from suburban Phoenix, and a straight-A student” (abc.com, 2006). “Debbie is the last person most of us would expect to be forced into the sex trafficking” (abc.com, 2006). She got a call from one of her friends saying she was outside her house, so Debbie went outside to meet her friend and greeted her with a hug as everything was okay, but instead, she was shoved into the car with the men (abc.com, 2006). One of their abductors threatens Bianca to tie Debbie up binding her hands together and covering her eyes, mouth, and threaten to kill her if she screams (abc.com, 2006). “Debbie said her abductors drove her …show more content…
A decade has passed by, and our country is still facing major problems with hidden slavery. Trafficking in persons has become the new form of modern day slavery in today’s society. This new modern day slavery violates a victim 's human rights and takes away their freedom, trust, and security. Although the freedom we have as U.S. citizens, human trafficking is a serious global issue that has been overlooked. This issue has increased drastically in the United States and is in need of awareness and attention of the world. Citizens of the United States are unaware that human trafficking exists today. The media only portrays trafficking of individuals as an issue that only happens in third world countries, but most victims are trafficked into the United States. The United States Department of Justice reports that human trafficking occurs in nearly every state in the nation. According to Hepburn and Simon (2010), the United States is one of the top destinations for trafficking victims and also has been reported in 91 cities across the country. Happens in over majority of cities in the United …show more content…
Forced labor is the used by traffickers through the use of force, fraud, and coercion to obtain personal and labor services through debt bondage (Logan et al., 2009). There are a variety of labor services that are used to obtain these personal services such as domestic servitude, which includes working as nannies or a maid, working in restaurants, sweatshops, factories, and construction (Logan et al., 2009). For example, in Logan et. al (2009) two Indonesia girls were promised for a better future in the United States to work for a wealthy family. The family guaranteed to pay them 200 dollars a month for working as their nannies and maids (Logan et al., 2009). The girls signed a contract and agreed to travel to the states with their new family, unfortunately, that all changed when the girls arrived in America (Logan et al., 2009). They took there all of their important documents away from them (Logan et al., 2009). The family tortured, threaten, and starved the girls they had to steal food and forced them to work long hours with no pay and made them sleep on the floors in the house (.Logan et al., 2009). Even though the women came traveled to America, legally they were forced to do the impossible (Logan et al., 2009). This form of trafficking shows you that victims can come into the States legally or illegally and are forced into being someone’s personal slave (Logan et al.,
Abducted from her driveway Debbie, "a fifteen-year-old girl, is a middle child in a close-knit Air Force family from suburban Phoenix, and a straight-A student” (abc.com, 2006). “Debbie is the last person most of us would expect to be forced into the sex trafficking” (abc.com, 2006). She got a call from one of her friends saying she was outside her house, so Debbie went outside to meet her friend and greeted her with a hug as everything was okay, but instead, she was shoved into the car with the men (abc.com, 2006). One of their abductors threatens Bianca to tie Debbie up binding her hands together and covering her eyes, mouth, and threaten to kill her if she screams (abc.com, 2006). “Debbie said her abductors drove her …show more content…
A decade has passed by, and our country is still facing major problems with hidden slavery. Trafficking in persons has become the new form of modern day slavery in today’s society. This new modern day slavery violates a victim 's human rights and takes away their freedom, trust, and security. Although the freedom we have as U.S. citizens, human trafficking is a serious global issue that has been overlooked. This issue has increased drastically in the United States and is in need of awareness and attention of the world. Citizens of the United States are unaware that human trafficking exists today. The media only portrays trafficking of individuals as an issue that only happens in third world countries, but most victims are trafficked into the United States. The United States Department of Justice reports that human trafficking occurs in nearly every state in the nation. According to Hepburn and Simon (2010), the United States is one of the top destinations for trafficking victims and also has been reported in 91 cities across the country. Happens in over majority of cities in the United …show more content…
Forced labor is the used by traffickers through the use of force, fraud, and coercion to obtain personal and labor services through debt bondage (Logan et al., 2009). There are a variety of labor services that are used to obtain these personal services such as domestic servitude, which includes working as nannies or a maid, working in restaurants, sweatshops, factories, and construction (Logan et al., 2009). For example, in Logan et. al (2009) two Indonesia girls were promised for a better future in the United States to work for a wealthy family. The family guaranteed to pay them 200 dollars a month for working as their nannies and maids (Logan et al., 2009). The girls signed a contract and agreed to travel to the states with their new family, unfortunately, that all changed when the girls arrived in America (Logan et al., 2009). They took there all of their important documents away from them (Logan et al., 2009). The family tortured, threaten, and starved the girls they had to steal food and forced them to work long hours with no pay and made them sleep on the floors in the house (.Logan et al., 2009). Even though the women came traveled to America, legally they were forced to do the impossible (Logan et al., 2009). This form of trafficking shows you that victims can come into the States legally or illegally and are forced into being someone’s personal slave (Logan et al.,