Child trafficking and
child abuses items from reliable news websites.
-
My dissertation mentioned sting operations, I
really took an interest and from what is publicised I came to the conclusion
that most of it (a lot by vigilantes, who do whatever they can within their own
means) is about hitting on lads who are desperate for a date, enter a dating
forum and pretend to be teenagers. I know they have caught dangerous active
pedophiles doing so, but for the most part, it is guys who did not target even
young adults, who just are single and spend hours, days, weeks trying to date
women, and end up chatting with someone pretending out of the blue they are
underage. I am specifying that because instead of the police to be doing their
job and tackle rings and hidden in plain sight brothels, and the rest of
society trying to reorganise lives in order for people to earn money with
dignity, in the respect of nature and human beings, nothing is done but the
building-up of sordid stories lines for tabloids.
Big lacking element in this paper: children
in social care are in most setting dramatically more likely to be trafficked or
being the victim of sexual
exploitation.
Exploitation certainly sounds like a
mundane word, just forgetting that by it, men mean death and mutilation. The
sense of utilisation being the most exotic and paraded with some impunity,
immune impugned.
I try to have social media presence
denouncing human rights abuses, one of my main topics being sexual crimes.
My MA dissertation was on sexual crimes
against children.
I work also on a project denouncing religious
beliefs enabling paedophile to be protected.
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How difficult it is for victims to readapt to a
normal live.
Adding to the
difficulty is a society that were not here to help they way it should have.
Induce trust issues.
Society may also
tend to put aside people with different behaviours, ways of thinking, or simply
the knowledge of how things as horrid as this is in fact perpetrated ‘so easily’.
Their own experiences make it difficult to just live within the so called
normal, integrated society.
-
My dissertation mentioned sting operations, I
really took an interest and from what is publicised I came to the conclusion
that most of it (a lot by vigilantes, who do whatever they can within their own
means) is about hitting on lads who are desperate for a date, enter a dating
forum and pretend to be teenagers. I know they have caught dangerous active
pedophiles doing so, but for the most part, it is guys who did not target even
young adults, who just are single and spend hours, days, weeks trying to date
women, and end up chatting with someone pretending out of the blue they are
underage. I am specifying that because instead of the police to be doing their
job and tackle rings and hidden in plain sight brothels, and the rest of
society trying to reorganise lives in order for people to earn money with
dignity, in the respect of nature and human beings, nothing is done but the
building-up of sordid stories lines for tabloids.
Maya's Story: Why Romanian Girls Fall
Prey to Human Trafficking
C: He is very likely to traffic the infant.
I would not have thought, with Romania a part of the european union, that the
baby could be possibly left with the father. The grandmother does not seem to
express concern on the recording sample.
It is horrifying.
It is not only in Romania, there is
‘parlor’ in every single country, above all in cities and near touristic
places. They prey on very young adults too.
Coronavirus lockdowns put children at risk
for human trafficking: Ex-CIA agent
https://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6172461113001
Child sex exploitation is on the rise in
Canada during the pandemic
Social Sharing
Police and experts say abusers have been
taking advantage of children spending more time online
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pandemic-child-sexual-abuse-1.5645315
C: when the streets rule.
Beyond
Rotherham: scale of child sex exploitation revealed
As one
support worker told me: “Rotherham is not the exception, it is more likely to
be the norm.”
But what
was different about Rotherham,
was a number – 1,400. That is 1,400 childhoods stolen and families broken.
It is hard to conceive in a town of around 250,000 people.
Victims
and parents were ignored and at times, treated with contempt by the
authorities. It rightly prompted questions about who knew what and why they did
not act.
https://www.channel4.com/news/beyond-rotherham-scale-of-child-sex-exploitation-across-uk
C:
interesting videos on this link.
dissociation
What is dissociation?
Many people may experience dissociation
(dissociate) during their life.
If you dissociate, you may feel
disconnected from yourself and the world around you. For example, you may feel
detached from your body or feel as though the world around you is unreal.
Remember, everyone’s
experience of dissociation is different.
Dissociation is one way the mind copes with
too much stress, such as during a traumatic event.
Experiences of dissociation can last for a
relatively short time (hours or days) or for much longer (weeks or months).
You might:
- have gaps in your life where you
can't remember anything that happened
- not be able to remember
information about yourself or about things that happened in your life.
A doctor or psychiatrist might call these
experiences dissociative amnesia.
For example, some people dissociate after
experiencing traumatic events such as war, kidnapping or an invasive medical
procedure.
Examples of trauma which may lead to a
dissociative disorder include:
- physical abuse
- sexual abuse
- severe neglect
- emotional abuse.
- abuse or neglect that begins at an
early age (the younger you are, the harder you will find it to cope with
traumatic experiences without dissociation)
- abuse or neglect that is severe
and repeated over a long period, or by many people
- abuse or neglect that is painful
and makes you scared
- there is no adult who you have a
good relationship with and is able to provide comfort and help you process
and deal with the trauma
- a child’s parents or caregivers
dissociate themselves
- abuse or neglect that is done by
someone you feel attached to
- the abuser tells you that things
didn't happen or that you were dreaming
- things are different at different
times - for example things seem normal during the day but at night you are
abused.
You can read more about the causes
of dissociative identity disorder on the PODS website.
C: including sensory loss.
Other symptoms of sexual trafficking are
endless, such traumas might trigger any mental sufferings.
Personality disorders, suicidal tendencies,
psychosis, loss of identity and self-esteem, memory losses, paranoia, loss of
communication faculties, selective muteness, panic attack, loss of rationality,
panic attacks, self-harm, loss of sense of time and space, physical capability
losses…
Like being a prisoner in a world that is
about to kill you every time you breathe.
Very clearly perpetrators will manipulate
victims and will abuses them relentlessly in order for the victims to lose
their faculties. There is not good answer to give to a perpetrator whose aim is
to keep their victims in the loop of trafficking. Denigrating anything someone
do or is or feel. For example, talking simply or keep quiet, moving or not
moving, or anything else that make the individual a person would be encountered
by terrorising acts coming from the perpetrators, endless, relentless sexual,
mental and physical attacks. The aim is to ‘kill’ the person mentally. I personally
think it is more than control, because one cannot control someone else
autonomy, their aims rather is to destroy their victims.
Ms Rowbotham spoke out about grooming at a
committee of MPs in 2012 and was later made redundant.
Rochdale grooming victim: 'Parents told
I was a prostitute'
Social services and police "missed
opportunities" to stop the sexual abuse of young girls in Rochdale, a
report into a grooming scandal has revealed.
"Deficiencies" and
"patchy" training of frontline staff were behind the failings, the
Rochdale Borough Safeguarding Children Board said in its review of child sexual
exploitation.
Study: Child Sex Trafficking Victims Not
Who You Think They Are
AUSTIN (CBSDFW.COM) — A new study of child sex trafficking in Texas finds that victims
are not adequately identified, enter and exit victimization multiple times, and
are exploited most of their lives.
- The lack of healthy, trusted
relationships along with economic instability create ideal conditions for
exploitation.
- Youths who lack support when
leaving an institutional system such as foster care or juvenile justice
are more vulnerable to exploitation.
- The rate of victimization was
higher among cisgender girls and young women and LGBTQ participants of all
genders.
Minor and youth commercial sex trafficking
does not vary much by region. What differs among regions are the services
available. Some have well-integrated levels of care that range from drop-in
centers for homeless youths, to shelters and residential centers for identified
victims.
https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2019/03/26/study-child-sex-trafficking-victims-not-who-you-think-they-are/
DISNEY executive charged with felony
child sex abuse …
Other Disney employees caught up in
police stings and child porn cases include security guards, a VIP tour guide, a
costumer, a gift shop employee and maintenance workers, CNN reported.
Not such a happy place after all.
Child trafficking case could be tip of
the iceberg: CP
Health officials likely to conduct a
search at the hospital
The detection of an alleged child trafficking
case in the city involving a doctor and five others could just be the tip of
the iceberg, says Commissioner of Police Rajeev Kumar Meena.
As of now the police have found six cases
where newborn children were allegedly sold illegally. Two such recipients have
been traced, and one couple has been arrested.
The doctor allegedly has a criminal history
and the police suspect that she could be involved in more cases, including in
the hospital branches at Bhubaneswar and Kolkata.
Poor women targeted
Her modus operandi was to target women from
BPL segment, especially those who have unwanted pregnancy, said Mr. Meena.
A European strategy to fight child
sexual abuse
The effect on victims of the circulation
and re-circulation of sexual abuse material is exacerbated by the surge in the
distribution of this material. One international survey found that 70 percent
of survivors of child sexual abuse worry about being recognised publicly
because of such exposure.
https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/a-european-strategy-to-fight-child-sexual-abuse
Human
Organs Trafficking Thrives Among Refugees in Turkey, ANA Says
(ANA) -
Athens Macedonian News Agency's Praktoreio magazine focuses on Thursday in
human organs trafficking that thrives among refugees in Turkey.
"My
name is Ahmed. I am From Syria and I live in Turkey. I would like to sell my
kidney. Blood type A+...Telephone number O..."
"Μy
name is Mohamed. I am selling my kidney in order to go to Europe. I live in the
Province of Hatay in Turkey. Call me on my mobile 0..."
These are
two out of the thousand posts in a closed group of the Facebook entitled
"Online kidney sale" also written in Arabic that is updated on a
daily basis from desperate people who came to the point to sell their organs.
The
picture of the online kidney selling groups is frightening. All the
nationalities from conflict zones are ready to sell a kidney.
The
representative of the Syrian community in Greece spoke of a mysterious case of
the disappearance of young children whose parents were drowned in their attempt
to reach the island of Lesvos. The children were hosted in Moria hotspot and
afterwards they vanished. Some linked the incident with organ trafficking but
nothing was proved.
Greece's
child-trafficking problem
Mr
Kanellopoulos says traffickers often use Roma communities because they live
"largely under the radar of society".
"She
was accompanied by a member of the criminal ring, who posed as her relative. He
paid her 3,000 euros (£2,500), took her baby, and then sold the child to a
Greek couple."
Childless
parents pay as much as 30,000 euros for a baby.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24613781
Male Genital Mutilation is a Joke on
Talk Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-kdXGfxY6o
By https://childusa.org/child-marriage/
Perhaps the most concerning aspect of child
marriage laws in the United States is that in 23, or approximately half, of the
states, there is no minimum age for marriage with parental and judicial
consent. This is known as not having a “floor” for marriage, or no bottom
limit.
This means that if both parents and a judge
sign off on the marriage, a child of any age can be married in that state. This
lack of a “floor” for marriage puts children–most often young girls–at risk of
sex abuse, because in many instances of child marriage, the parents are the
ones who are forcing their child to marry.
https://childusa.org/child-marriage/
What You Need To Know About Child
Marriage In The U.S.
Sarah
FergusonBrand Contributor
BRANDVOICE| Paid Program
Worldwide, 12 million girls marry before age 18 every year.
Say "child marriage" and the average American thinks of a developing
country, where economic hardship forces parents to marry off their young
daughter to a much older man. In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, 4 in 10 young
women marry before age 18. In South Asia, 3 in 10 girls are wed before their
18th birthday. While there is some evidence that children (mostly
girls) are more at risk of child marriage in rural and poorer settings, the
fact is that child marriage affects all communities.
There is no federal law regarding child
marriage. Every state sets its own requirements.
Child marriage is a harmful practice and
a violation of child rights
Parents may believe early marriage is in
their daughter's best interest, especially if she's pregnant. But the vast
majority of girls who marry before age 18 are harmed for life. They're
separated from their families and friends, and 50 percent more likely to drop
out of school. Early marriage doubles a teenager's chances of living in poverty
and triples the likelihood she'll be beaten by her spouse, compared to married
adults.
Marrying before age 18 traps girls in a
cycle of poverty
That's why UNICEF believes marriage under
age 18 must be prohibited under all circumstances.
According to a Kansas City Star series of child marriage in the U.S.,
Missouri has the most lenient law in the nation allowing 15-year-olds to wed.
Only one parent's signature is required.
More than 1,000 15-year-olds have been
married in Missouri since 1999. Even children ages 14, 13 and 12 can marry
in Missouri — it's one of 25 states with no minimum age requirement. For those
14 and younger, a judge's consent is required. Missouri is a
destination wedding spot for 15-year-old child brides
How to spot human trafficking | Kanani
Titchen | TEDxGeorgeSchool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrxhptvEOTs
C: On where they may be.
Domestic Sex Trafficking - A Survivor's
Perspective | Karly Church | TEDxOshawaED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh1emIVHy8g
C: on luring and manipulation
Child sex trafficking becomes a
consequence of COVID lockdowns: AG weighs in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgB-DhoORis
Sex Trafficking in the U.S.: Young
Lives, Insane Profit | Yolanda Schlabach | TEDxWilmington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNq2WS-QFcc
I was sex trafficked for years. Brothels
are hidden in plain sight. | Casandra Diamond | TEDxToronto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg6xCRemYw4
Tim Ballard EXPLAINS THE ISSUE Of Human
Trafficking & How To PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN From It
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHQHP7cCg0c
C: Not true u do not need the dark net,
underage photos are all over some pornography sites found on any search
engines. The police simply do not do anything.
C: one of the strongest reasons that
abused children are more vulnerable to sexual trafficking, is that they will
logically search for the reproduction, for similar adults to their parents. So
if they have been abused by their parents, the closest individuals to them,
they will find that their abusers’ deeds are ‘normal’. Parental even?
Edita
Gruberova - 'Casta Diva' - Norma - Bellini . (multi-subs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UtpV48OiRY
:C i dont
get the negative likes (lies), maybe they are anti-pagan, she is superb, the
set and direction of the troop are staggering, thank you for so many subtitles
and translations. i am an art and diva lover and this is about to become one of
my favourite rhythms.
The Matzneff scandal shows France’s
attitude to consent is finally starting to change
This article is more than 6 months old
Matzneff’s predilection for underage girls
was certainly no secret in Parisian literary circles. His diaries, in which he details his sexual
exploits and boasts of the dozens of young girls and boys he slept with in
Paris and the sex tours he took to the Philippines where he paid for sex with
underage boys, have been published by Gallimard for years. In a widely circulated clip of a television show from 1990,
Maztneff can be seen being quizzed about his predilection for “schoolgirls” by
Bernard Pivot, one of France’s most famous literary figures, with fellow guests
laughing indulgently. He appears deeply offended when one guest, the Canadian
writer Denise Bombardier, expresses unalloyed disgust; the following day the
writer Jacques Lanzmann declared that someone should have slapped her for being
so rude.
The Matzneff scandal shows France’s
attitude to consent is finally starting to change
This article is more than 6 months old
Matzneff’s predilection for underage girls
was certainly no secret in Parisian literary circles. His diaries, in which he
details his sexual exploits and boasts of the dozens of young girls and boys he
slept with in Paris and the sex tours he took to the Philippines where he paid
for sex with underage boys, have been published by Gallimard for years. In a widely circulated clip
of a television show from 1990, Maztneff can be seen being quizzed about his
predilection for “schoolgirls” by Bernard Pivot, one of France’s most famous
literary figures, with fellow guests laughing indulgently. He appears deeply
offended when one guest, the Canadian writer Denise Bombardier, expresses
unalloyed disgust; the following day the writer Jacques Lanzmann declared that
someone should have slapped her for being so rude.
C: check maztneff, one of the biggest
scandals in France. Despicable.
Maya's Story: Why Romanian Girls Fall
Prey to Human Trafficking
Maya is a 17-year-old living in a
small town in rural Romania. In this film, she shares her
experience being trafficked into sex work in the city by her boyfriend.
Her story is not uncommon. Due to
widespread poverty in rural Romania, many young people see the sex industry as
the best way to make a living.
Thousands of Nigerian women forced
into prostitution were left to starve by sex traffickers during the Covid-19
pandemic in Italy, the
Guardian can reveal.
U.S. senator to change anti-child porn
bill over Google, Facebook encryption concerns: draft
3 Min Read
(Reuters) - U.S. legislation aimed at
stopping online child sexual abuse material is likely to be amended to address
concerns of platforms like Google and Facebook that the proposed law goes too
far to weaken privacy protections for ordinary users, according to a draft of
the bill seen by Reuters.
Attorney General Bill Barr, who opposes
end-to-end encryption. Tech companies had previously feared the practices would
attempt to help law enforcement investigations by including weaker privacy
protections for messages sent by users. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-legislation-encryption/u-s-senator-to-change-anti-child-porn-bill-over-google-facebook-encryption-concerns-draft-idUSKBN24276X
Wrong arm of the law: Homeland Security
agents should protect, not abuse
However, almost two years later, those charges
were dropped because officers were not allowed to testify in court, and
investigative journalists discovered why.
HSI undercover officers were given approval
by their supervisors to pay for sex acts from the human trafficking victims
during this investigation.
Make no mistake, that is federally
sanctioned sexual assault.
If you are curious if that egregious abuse
facilitated the conviction of human traffickers, it didn’t.
If you are curious if the victims are now
safe, you will remain that way, because we don’t really know. Those victims
cannot be located. Those victims were very likely retraumatized by this
unconscionable investigation.
In the anti-human trafficking movement,
survivors have often decried the practices of law enforcement, and rightfully
so.
When the people who are designated to
protect take the most marginalized people in our community and threaten and
abuse them, we are left questioning where the justice really is in our justice
system.
When many survivors talk about law enforcement,
they tell stories of being forced to have sex with officers to avoid
arrest.
https://www.newsweek.com/we-have-set-system-sex-traffic-american-children-779541
Most people don't know about our nation's
foster care to sex trafficking pipeline, but the facts are sobering. The
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) found that "of
the more than 18,500 endangered runaways reported to NCMEC in 2016, one in six were likely victims of
child sex trafficking. Of those, 86 percent were in the care of social
services when they went missing."
Child welfare systems can, but often do
not, prevent that reality for children. Pimps rely on that.
Children are learning all the time, and in
abusive foster or group homes they learn that their worth as humans is not
intrinsic. Their worth is what the abusive caregiver gets from them, whether
simply a paycheck from the state or their bodies for sex, as happened to some
of my clients.
This conditions them to be subservient to
pimps—giving all they have in exchange for essential needs, like food and
shelter.
As one of my clients put it, after
extensive physical and sexual abuse in state care, the day she turned 18 and
left the system with no community support, job or money, she saw herself in one
way: "There was a gold mine between my legs."
https://www.newsweek.com/we-have-set-system-sex-traffic-american-children-779541
Diplomats from Greece have been
blasted as “traitors” by the country’s former foreign minister, after he
shockingly repeated allegations that visas were issued “to unaccompanied
children to illegally traffic their organs”.
Nikos
Kotzias, who resigned last month in a row over Macedonia’s name, damningly said
last week – and for the second time – that some 93 cases had been sent for
prosecution, with a string of “highly respected ambassadors” already
behind bars.
It is
feared thousands of unaccompanied minors roaming Greece are at risk of sexual
exploitation or trafficking. There are 3,050 unaccompanied child migrants in
Greece, of whom 1,272 (42 percent) are either homeless, live in a temporary or
an unidentified location, local news site Kathimerini reports. https://www.rt.com/news/445278-greece-diplomats-child-trafficking/
It is
feared thousands of unaccompanied minors roaming Greece are at risk of sexual
exploitation or trafficking. There are 3,050 unaccompanied child migrants in
Greece, of whom 1,272 (42 percent) are either homeless, live in a temporary or
an unidentified location, local news site Kathimerini reports. https://www.rt.com/news/445278-greece-diplomats-child-trafficking/
C: this report is intriguing, as it can be
found on an apparently serious academic site, and on RT, which is very big and
very Russian, and on the news site Kathimerini, a big newspaper in Greece. I
tend to believe it is not fake news but thereby wonder how it can possibly be
the case that this string of imprisonments of politicians has not been reported
by anybody else from the mass media.
In any case we know that refugees are at incredible risk of being
trafficked for their organs.
A propos survivors there is another ethical
problem is that retelling one' s story might bring the traumas to the fore.
Retraumising the victims depending on how the retelling will happen.
Tesco condemned for selling pole dancing
toy
by COLIN FERNANDEZ
Last updated at 23:13 24 October 2006
Tesco has been forced to remove a
pole-dancing kit from the toys and games section of its website after it was
accused of "destroying children's innocence".
The Tesco Direct site advertises the kit
with the words, "Unleash the sex kitten inside...simply extend the
Peekaboo pole inside the tube, slip on the sexy tunes and away you go!
"Soon you'll be flaunting it to the
world and earning a fortune in Peekaboo Dance Dollars".
The £49.97 kit comprises a chrome pole
extendible to 8ft 6ins, a 'sexy dance garter' and a DVD demonstrating
suggestive dance moves.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-412195/Tesco-condemned-selling-pole-dancing-toy.html
c: Those are tools to sexual trafficking
you are right.
Tesco, a giga supermarket network in the
UK, and a notorious tax-evader.
Possible sexualisation of children
comment:
C:
if the intent is to sexualise the
situation, then i don't think he tries to justify it. i think he could show you
he can say he is a pedo and make you watch for your back for the day he will
strike. or maybe it is an innocent comment. you know we also may say so stupid
and without knowing dangerous things. there are people who still do not know
these dangers. maybe also because there should not exist, underlining our lives
or the interpretation of speeches or texts. i hope he is innocent in his
comment. the context of people predating on human beings...
dark poverty and human rights abuses
sometimes make any word sound like they could be abusive. in any case there are
psychological torture technics used by abusers when they worsen their torture
at the exact moment they address their victims ‘positively’, with what would be
literally be construed as positive opinions, words, comments. I hope this guy
is not a pedo, i think he apologised.
Dawson continues by saying: “People have
foot fetishes, people have fetishes about everything…so why is it when someone
Googles naked babies and jerks off to it, they can get arrested?”
C: he said that, it is very sick sorry. I
had not read. Makes it clearly pedo material, that does.
Love Island: Eight-year-old Llandeilo
children 'emulate contestants'
A primary school headmaster has sent a
letter to parents complaining pupils as young as eight were emulating behaviour
seen on TV show Love Island.
Aled Rees said Year 4 pupils at Ysgol
Gymraeg Teilo Sant had been commenting on each other's appearance and
"pairing individuals together".
He told parents the show's contestants were
"no role models for our children".
ITV said the show aired after the 21:00
watershed and was not aimed at primary school children.
Love Island is a popular reality dating
show set in a Spanish villa where contestants are encouraged to "pair
up" with each other in order to win a cash prize.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-48929932
Children who watch pornography at a
young age are more likely to have sex earlier and adopt 'unhealthy sexual
habits' later in life
- Researchers surveyed adults
aged 18-25 about their porn and sex habits
- They found that those who
watched porn younger started having sex younger
- The average age to start
watching porn was 12, with sexual activity starting at 13
- Researchers hope their findings
will encourage authorities to provide better sexual education to children
at a younger age
By Shivali
Ms Walker said: 'The rates of sexually
transmitted infections in the UK continue to rise, and this research shows that
the standard of sex education is not currently sufficient to prevent risky
sexual activity.
'With the 15-24 age group accounting for
over half of the reported sexually transmitted infections reported in the UK,
it is crucial that this education takes place at a younger age, particularly
when our findings on the age of sexual initiation are taken into account.
'Without appropriate sex education at an
age when exposure to sexual material begins to occur, children are at risk of
turning to unreliable sources, such as sexually explicit material, and are at
risk of adopting unhealthy sexual habits in the future.'
This suggests that the age of exposure has
a more significant effect on sexual behaviour than the quantity that is viewed.
'Sexually risky behaviour was defined as
behaviour that puts people at high risk of contracting a sexually transmitted
infection.
'For this research, these behaviours
referred to a lack of contraceptive use and having multiple sexual partners.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4858590/Kids-watch-porn-young-age-likely-sex.html
U.S. Marshals recover 39 missing
children in Georgia operation
According to the Marshals Service, there
are more than 420,000 children currently missing in the U.S. Of those
about 91 percent are runaways believed to be in danger.
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/u-s-marshals-recover-39-missing-children-in-georgia-operation=
Know the Language of Human Trafficking:
A Glossary of Sex Trafficking Terms
Sometimes these women are recruited by other female inmates who
are paid by outside pimps.
“These recruiters coerce female inmates
into working for the traffickers,” says Meekins. “When they walk out to what
they think is freedom, the traffickers are right there to pick them up to lead
them into the worst kind of slavery.”
In other cases, female inmates are directly
contacted by sex traffickers through websites like paperdollpenpals.com
and jailbabes.com, which provides inmates’ mailing address.
Choosing Up: The process by which a different pimp takes “ownership” of a victim.
Victims are instructed to keep their eyes on the ground at all times. According
to traditional pimping rules, when a victim makes eye contact with another pimp
(accidentally or on purpose), she is choosing him to be her pimp. If the
original pimp wants the victim back, he must pay a fee to the new pimp. When
this occurs, he will force the victim to work harder to replace the money lost
in the transaction. (See Reckless Eyeballing)
Circuit: A
series of cities among which prostituted people are moved.
Facilitators:
It is important to realize that human trafficking operations often intersect or
exist alongside legitimate businesses.
- Hotels and Motels
- Landlords
- Labor brokers
- Taxi and other driving services
- Airlines, bus, and rail companies
- Advertisers (Websites like
Craigslist.com and Backpage.com; Phone books; Alternative newspapers)
- Banks and other financial services
companies
- Inmate pen-pal services
Human Trafficking Awareness: What
Parents and Guardians Need to Know
Some traffickers specifically target vulnerable
children, such as those who have a caregiver with a substance use
problem, have a drug or alcohol problem themselves, or who are facing poverty.
Kids who identify as LGBTQ+ are more likely to be targeted by traffickers, too,
especially if they don’t have a supportive community. In fact, a startling
58.7% of homeless LGBT youth have been sexually
victimized, and 1 in 3 teen runaways is recruited by a sex trafficker
within just 48 hours of leaving home.
How to Talk About Human Trafficking
Have candid, age-appropriate discussions
with your child about what human
trafficking is.
https://www.bark.us/blog/human-trafficking-awareness-kids/
Children As Young As 12 Trafficked
Around UK To Sell Drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH5YAvmyPkc
16 Marines Arrested On Human Trafficking
And Drug Charges | Katy Tur | MSNBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzVACwB2ST0
