Human trafficking is an organized criminal industry that affects every nation where people are sold for labor or sex. For more background information check out this post. When I found out about human trafficking I thought that it primarily took place outside of the US, but come to find out that Jacksonville is one of the largest ports in Florida.
I've recently found this article on msn.com were it talks about how a teenage girls was approached by a trafficker. She worked at a diner and there was a regular customer that she would chat with and the regular customer was actually finding out more about her every visit, her birthday (find out when she turns 18), her favorite past boy friends (see what kind of guys she liked), etc. Then when she turned 18 years old, a young gentlemen that was a magical match for her, and built a relationship with her and asked her to stay with him, and quickly getting involved in the night club scene, and eventually asked her to move with him to another town to make more money. Thankfully she declined! If she had gone with him, she would more than likely been disconnected from her friends and family and be forced into human trafficking. Please, please, please read the article!
Human trafficking is on the rise in the United States. Over 17,500 victims are trafficked in the U.S.
annually and approximately 33% are American citizens. The full scope of the problem has yet to be
determined, as the crime of human trafficking is often intertwined with drug trafficking and
prostitution.
Trafficking in the U.S. often occurs in street prostitution, massage parlors, and brothels, and for
labor in domestic service, agriculture, manufacturing, janitorial services, hospitality industries,
construction, health and elder care, and strip club dancing. U.S. citizen victims, both adults and
children, are predominantly found in sex trafficking; U.S. citizen child victims are often runaways,
troubled, and homeless youth. Foreign victims are more often found in labor trafficking than sex
trafficking.*
It scares me to death to think of someone I know being tricked into this horrific activity. And these traffickers are smart, smooth talkers, and have a system. They realized that these people can be used over and over again, where as drugs you have to make more and more. If you have children or young kids or adults make them aware of this, not to scare them but to protect them. It is estimated that 600-800,000 people are trafficked every year, which is the entire city of Denver, CO.
If you have any questions, feel free to email me! There are so many ways to help raise awareness and support organizations that are doing amazing things to shut this down! You'll see more posts coming. Check out these posts!
eas5223@gmail.com
* Statistics provided by a21campaign.com
Human trafficking is on the rise in the United States. Over 17,500 victims are trafficked in the U.S.
annually and approximately 33% are American citizens. The full scope of the problem has yet to be
determined, as the crime of human trafficking is often intertwined with drug trafficking and
prostitution.
Trafficking in the U.S. often occurs in street prostitution, massage parlors, and brothels, and for
labor in domestic service, agriculture, manufacturing, janitorial services, hospitality industries,
construction, health and elder care, and strip club dancing. U.S. citizen victims, both adults and
children, are predominantly found in sex trafficking; U.S. citizen child victims are often runaways,
troubled, and homeless youth. Foreign victims are more often found in labor trafficking than sex
trafficking.*
It scares me to death to think of someone I know being tricked into this horrific activity. And these traffickers are smart, smooth talkers, and have a system. They realized that these people can be used over and over again, where as drugs you have to make more and more. If you have children or young kids or adults make them aware of this, not to scare them but to protect them. It is estimated that 600-800,000 people are trafficked every year, which is the entire city of Denver, CO.
If you have any questions, feel free to email me! There are so many ways to help raise awareness and support organizations that are doing amazing things to shut this down! You'll see more posts coming. Check out these posts!
eas5223@gmail.com
* Statistics provided by a21campaign.com
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