Posted on 05/28/2010 4:25:14 AM PDT by GonzoII
TOLEDO, Ohio -- For years, Americans have watched international reports of human trafficking thinking it couldn't happen here. But now, researchers are finding more and more domestic cases and not just in the big cities or the border states. They're in the heartland.
Shared Hope International, a Christian anti-trafficking organization, reports that up to 300,000 children in the U.S. are at risk for trafficking each year. Twelve years old is the average age of entry.
"Men are buying younger children," Shared Hope founder and former congresswoman Linda Smith said. "They're buying more violent acts with the children and those children aren't willingly saying 'I want to be prostituted.' Now we're seeing 9, 10, 11-year-olds. Eleven years old is common--snatched from a middle school, lured through a mall or online."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbn.com ...
Pimp a child, die.
No muss, no fuss, just gone.
It has always been happening here.
Thank you so much for posting this information.
Let’s just adopt sharia law and the problem disappears.
Thanks for posting this....yet another reason for protecting our 2nd Amendment rights. Citizens are basically “on their own” to protect their homes/families. Add open borders to that, and no wonder ammo is scarce.
Considering that the United Nations supports groups like NAMBLA (North American Man Boy Love Association)....and too many in the US support Liberal Globalist policies that keep the UN and other International groups who push sexual perversion in power....we as Americans need to wake up and do what we can do to stop any and all abuse perversion against children.
300,000 at risk? What’s that supposed to mean?
I agree 100%.
There are few crimes on this planet more deserving of the death penalty than preying on the most innocent among us.
Many here will disagree but this is one reason why I believe prostitution should be legalized and regulated. It very well might cut down on sexual abuse especially that of children.
What two consenting adults do is their business...
“up to” 300,000 “at risk”
From the Department of Meaningless Made-Up Statistics.
Unfortunately the SCOTUS shot it down. If their is no justice in the courts, we will need to take the trash out.
Supreme Court Rejects Death Penalty for Child Rape - June 26, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/washington/26scotuscnd.html
WASHINGTON — The death penalty is unconstitutional as a punishment for the rape of a child, a sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
The 5-to-4 decision overturned death penalty laws in Louisiana and five other states. The only two men in the country who have been sentenced to death for the crime of child rape, both in Louisiana, will receive new sentences of life without parole.
The court went beyond the question in the case to rule out the death penalty for any individual crime — as opposed to “offenses against the state,” such as treason or espionage — “where the victim’s life was not taken.”
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority, said there was “a distinction between intentional first-degree murder on the one hand and non-homicide crimes against individual persons,” even such “devastating” crimes as the rape of a child, on the other.
Before the internet, it was easier to look the other way.
Comparatively few prostitutes begin the sex trades as adults. Children used for sex are 27.5 times as likely to be arrested for prostitution as adults according to the FBI database.
Legalized prostitution would make no contribution to solving this problem.
One that attempted to take out the trash but needs more range time...
Angry mother escapes charge for shooting child molester in the groin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/639187/posts
I don't think so. Pedophiles seek out children for a reason and that reason isn't due to a lack of availability for sex with adults......
No, legalized prostitution does not cut down down on trafficking. Instead it fuels the mentality that people should be entitled to purchase any sexual gratification they want.
A push for lower and lower ages of consent always accompanies legalized prostitution.
That may be true but one can still make an argument that it could cut down on other types of sexual assaults.
There are a couple of other sources and stories about this out there on the web which indicate that number comes from the FBI. One states that “various FBI reports” indicate that 100,000 to 300,000 childrenare actually trafficked in the U.S. each year.
I am trying right now to track down any FBI studies/reports on this issue.
The article mentions that Christians in Ohio are building a place called SafeHaven to help rescued sex slaves. And its the only one in the entire country. These kids have had their heads screwed up and they need help to function normally again. Thank God for Safehaven and these fine Christians. Every state needs one.
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