LITTLE BARBIES: SEX TRAFFICING OF YOUNG GIRLS

zerohedge ^ | 2/08/2018 | Tyler Durden, John Whitehead

[greeneyes]

Little Barbies: Sex Trafficking Of Young Girls Is America's Dirty Little Secret

Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,

They’re called the Little Barbies. Children, young girls—some as young as 9 years old—are being bought and sold for sex in America. The average age for a young woman being sold for sex is now 13 years old. This is America’s dirty little secret.

According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, “Children are being targeted and sold for sex in America every day.”

Sex trafficking—especially when it comes to the buying and selling of young girls—has become big business in America, the fastest growing business in organized crime and the second most-lucrative commodity traded illegally after drugs and guns.

As investigative journalist Amy Fine Collins notes, “It’s become more lucrative and much safer to sell malleable teens than drugs or guns.

Consider this: every two minutes, a child is exploited in the sex industry....On average, a child might be raped by 6,000 men during a five-year period of servitude.

[dsc]

“Agreed, but not everyone listens to Him!”

Too soon old; too late wise.

[Elsie]

Oh!

You’re in for a ride the next two decades!

[Svartalfiar]

and the second most-lucrative commodity traded illegally after drugs and guns.

Huh? wouldn't that make it the third most lucrative commodity? Did this article have an editor?

[greeneyes]

Well, yes and no. If one adds the guns and drugs together and states that is the most lucrative then human trafficking is second. However it was meant, it is not clear, so criticism is well founded.

Newspapers in this day and age would not have made it past our high school student editor, let along the Journalism Teacher and sponsor.

[x_plus_one]

Its not just a ring - its a way of life in HW.

[Svartalfiar]

Well, yes and no. If one adds the guns and drugs together and states that is the most lucrative then human trafficking is second. However it was meant, it is not clear, so criticism is well founded.
Newspapers in this day and age would not have made it past our high school student editor, let along the Journalism Teacher and sponsor.

Well, the way I said it is the only way that makes sense to me. Drugs and guns are pretty clearly each their own separate category. If drugs and/or guns are, say, #1 and #3, then why combine them? Just say the trafficking is #2 after whichever is #1. OR, if drugs/guns are #2 and #3, but combine to #1, why not just say trafficking is #1?

But I agree, journalism standards have sharply fallen. Over half the articles I read have some kind of spelling or grammatical mistake in them. Missed by the 'journalist', his proofreader, and the editor. There's a couple articles I've seen that I thought came out of Google translate, they were so bad...