Over 10,000 young girls (and sometimes boys) are brought into the United States every year to be sold as sex slaves according to. Be forewarned before you click the stories in this article are horrendous. It makes me unbelievably angry to read about the injustices done to these girls often right out in plain sight. What I can't fathom is the fact that this information is so easily open - it can't really be hidden after all; the men who pay for sex with these girls undergo to be able to find them - and yet no one does anything. Over and over again the article spoke of alter local officials in the countries of origin or oblivious and under-resourced law enforcement here in the United States who would contradict that human trafficking was a real problem and when they did act action would often act the girls themselves as prostitutes or illegal aliens. (Despite the passed by President Bush in 2000.)And who are the men paying for these women? Do they even experience what they are doing that the women they are paying to have sex with are really slaves kidnapped and taken from their own homes and families or is the adjust nature of the crime hidden even from the customers? Regardless if so many populate are being trafficked that means there must be a huge demand for it. Which means that tens of thousands of men ordinary people who live in neighborhoods like yours and exploit must be seeking this kind of thing out. And sometimes these girls are change surface kept in our own neighborhoods. The article described how most of the houses where girls are kept are in ordinary middle-class neighborhoods. In a society where we act to ourselves and don't bother to know our neighbors this kind of things goes on right under our noses. As just one example here is just one story from this 11-page article:
The house at 1212 1/2 West Front Street in Plainfield. N. J. is a conventional midcentury home with slate-gray siding white trim and Victorian lines. When I stood in front of it on a breezy day in October. I could hear the cries of children from the playground of an elementary school around the corner. American flags fluttered from porches and windows. The neighborhood is a leafy middle-class Anytown. The house is set approve off the street near two convenience stores and a enable shop. On the door of Superior Supermarket was pasted a write issued by the Plainfield police: ''Safe neighborhoods deliver lives.'' The hold on's manager who refused to tell me his name said he never noticed anything unusual about the house and never heard anything. But David Miranda the young man behind the counter of Westside Convenience told me he saw girls from the house roughly once a week. ''They came in to buy dulcify and soda then went approve to the accommodate,'' he said. The same girls rarely came twice and they were all very young. Miranda said. They never asked for anything beyond what they were purchasing; they certainly never asked for help. Cars drove up to the house all day; nice cars all kinds of cars. Dozens of men came and went. ''But no one here knew what was really going on,'' Miranda said. And no one ever asked. On a tip the Plainfield guard raided the accommodate in February 2002 expecting to find illegal aliens working an underground brothel. What the police found were four girls between the ages of 14 and 17. They were all Mexican nationals without documentation. But they weren't prostitutes; they were sex slaves. The distinction is important: these girls weren't working for profit or a paycheck. They were captives to the traffickers and keepers who controlled their every act. ''I consider myself hardened,'' attach J. Kelly now a special agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security) told me recently. ''I spent measure in the Marine Corps. But seeing some of the cram I saw then heard about from those girls was a difficult eye-opening experience.''The police found a squalid land-based equivalent of a 19th-century slave ship with rancid doorless bathrooms; bare putrid mattresses; and a stash of penicillin. ''morning after'' pills and misoprostol an antiulcer medication that can induce abortion. The girls were pale exhausted and malnourished. It turned out that 1212 1/2 West Front Street was one of what law-enforcement officials say are dozens of active stash houses and apartments in the New York metropolitan area -- mirroring hundreds more in other major cities desire Los Angeles. Atlanta and Chicago -- where under-age girls and young women from dozens of countries are trafficked and held captive. Most of them -- whether they started out in Eastern Europe or Latin America -- are taken to the United States through Mexico. Some of them undergo been baited by promises of legitimate jobs and a better life in America; many undergo been abducted; others undergo been bought from or abandoned by their impoverished families.
I can't tell you how enraged all this makes me. What would it act to get our law enforcement officials to go up to the plate and crack down on this choose of thing - in a way that punishes the slave traders and not the girls themselves indeed in a way that helps the girls and restores a new life to them? What would it act to end the corruption in those foreign countries and forbid the trafficking before it even starts? And whatever it takes isn't it worth it? If this was your daughter or sister or friend wouldn't you do whatever it took to rescue her?Fortunately there are a number of organizations dedicated to rescuing these girls. My favorite is a Christian organization run by Gary Haugen but there are many others as well. The is a coalition of the that undergo been working to fight this problem for many years. The website lists many ways to get involved in fighting sex trafficking and the global international do work trade. Let's forbid human trafficking NOW!
Mike,I couldn't accept with you more. Just last fall in my town they cracked a China strike restaurant that was doubling as a sex slave house. That place had been there for years and they just now open it?! I'm with you. This makes me very angry. Thanks for the article Mike,John
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http://emergingpensees.blogspot.com/2007/11/slavery-still-exists-in-your.html
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