Petra Hensley was 16 when she was taken from a train station in the Czech Republic, drugged and thrown into an abandoned apartment only 30 miles from her home. At the apartment she was tied to a wall and exploited sexually. Another trafficked victim was held in the room next to Petra’s. On Petra’s third day in captivity she heard her only companion in the apartment be shot and killed. Petra knew she was going to die if she did not escape this nightmare. Three days after being kidnapped Petra liberated herself by breaking out through a poorly boarded window and running home. Fortunately for Petra she only spent a short amount of time suffering as a modern day sex slave and was able to make it out alive; whereas, a tragic 30,000 innocent victims
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All of this is leading to an increased unawareness of the public. This unawareness is causing a state of blissful ignorance among society and, in turn, jeopardizing the bodies and lives of innocent women and children around the world. The media has never had as large of an impact on society as it does today and since the government does not want the public to be totally aware of the current situation, they censor the media. The Unites States government does not want to do anything that puts their “greatest nation in the world” title in jeopardy therefore they do their best to censor these stories out of the media to try and uphold that facade. In an effort to uphold the facade of being problem free the government prevents major news outlets from airing these stories. They do not want the american people as well as foreign entities from finding out that the United States has a human trafficking problem. These major news outlets such as, CNN and Fox news are the two most frequently watched and trusted news channels in America (“United States cable news,” 2014) with an average of 421,000 viewers everyday (Ariens, 2014). These 421,000 Americans are tuning into what the news promises to be the most important and up to …show more content…
With the lack of programs and laws established about the issue one would think keeping them up to date would not be a challenge however, for the government, it is. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) is the only law that provides any means on how to combat trafficking worldwide. It is easy to assume that an act like this would be updated and perfected periodically, yet it is only updated once every two years (“Current Laws Against Human Trafficking,” 2012). While every year that passes there are more and more innocent people being forced to be sexual slaves in this horrible trade. If the United Nation officials would perfect this Act more often than every two years, then the nation as a whole would see a downturn in the number of
All of this is leading to an increased unawareness of the public. This unawareness is causing a state of blissful ignorance among society and, in turn, jeopardizing the bodies and lives of innocent women and children around the world. The media has never had as large of an impact on society as it does today and since the government does not want the public to be totally aware of the current situation, they censor the media. The Unites States government does not want to do anything that puts their “greatest nation in the world” title in jeopardy therefore they do their best to censor these stories out of the media to try and uphold that facade. In an effort to uphold the facade of being problem free the government prevents major news outlets from airing these stories. They do not want the american people as well as foreign entities from finding out that the United States has a human trafficking problem. These major news outlets such as, CNN and Fox news are the two most frequently watched and trusted news channels in America (“United States cable news,” 2014) with an average of 421,000 viewers everyday (Ariens, 2014). These 421,000 Americans are tuning into what the news promises to be the most important and up to …show more content…
With the lack of programs and laws established about the issue one would think keeping them up to date would not be a challenge however, for the government, it is. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) is the only law that provides any means on how to combat trafficking worldwide. It is easy to assume that an act like this would be updated and perfected periodically, yet it is only updated once every two years (“Current Laws Against Human Trafficking,” 2012). While every year that passes there are more and more innocent people being forced to be sexual slaves in this horrible trade. If the United Nation officials would perfect this Act more often than every two years, then the nation as a whole would see a downturn in the number of