I'm appalled at the number of kids whose parents will dump them off unattended at malls.
ABC reports?
It is suspect from the get go. - It reads like other fake news with fake statistics about fake people from so called "reporters."
Bush's fault! He is somehow 'connected' to the sex trade in America. Impeach him now!
Does anyone else think it's wierd that both of the examples are from the same town (Phoenix)?
I second that emotion. In fact, I'd like to hang the millstone personally.
sounds like another anorexia hoax to me. I don't doubt that it happens, just nowhere near the volume being quoted here. 100K? That's 2 thousand kids per state. at that rate kids'll be vanishing before our very eyes.
there'd be none left in a few short years!
Tagged for my daughter - later reading
What you can see, time and time again, is that the predators will adapt their means to whatever the young people are doing -- whether it's malls, whether it's ski slopes, whether it's beaches,"
This number of "100,000 young prostitutes and slaves" seems a bit unrealistic. Wouldn't we see many more children under duress in our cities and suburbs as we went around our daily business? Cities such as New York have been scrubbed so well of criminality that one rarely even sees adult prostitutes walking around. I don't think this many victims of horrible crime could be swept under the rug as easily as ABC portrays.
~ Blue Jays ~
Two things, multicultural immigration has brought in all the worlds moral standards, I'm sure many of us have stories about what we suspect is criminal behavior by some of the businesses we deal with now, for example I never saw one gas station that dealt with cash only, until the middle eastern- americans took over so much of the self serves. Crime like this is more difficult to deal with than, say pre 1970. The second problem is, because of Feminism we quit teaching our girls to protect themselves. Look at pre-sixties America and you will see that females were much better protected by, cultural rules and personal restrictions.
Every one who hurt these girls should be executed. Period.
equating women who voluntarily enter the fields of porno and/or prostitution with those who are involtarily forced into them is disingenuous.
I question the agenda of whomever does this, especially when groups have to skew the definition of sexual harassment (verbal rumors, etc.) in order to show a problem there.
Torture is too good for these people.
Vermont? Massachusetts? At least you won't be hassled by the "man" in those two states if and when you get caught.
So True! One day they will stand before the Living God. What a fearful time that will be for them.
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"Teen Girls Tell Their Stories of Sex Trafficking and Exploitation in U.S."
I think that this is firmly rooted in the break down of moral family values. Parents are so eager to have their children like them, that they fail to do what is necessary to protect them.
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So wonderful that these two children have been found, saved and returned to their families, but how many more are not?
And, WHO are the MEN involved? This is a grim statement as to the lunacy that many individuals in our society walk around with, unnoticed to their own wives, families, neighbors and coworkers. Each and every one of them described in this story, as with the unidentified probable others, should be...well...a very bad fate awaits them for the evil that they do.
I wish it was possible to save all children from harm, I really do.
Skeptical readers (of which there are quite a few on this thread) can make some calculations to see whether such an allegation is credible.
What does the report of more than 100,000 underage prostitutes with an average age of 11 imply?
1. There is no point kidnapping a girl and prostituting her if there are no customers (johns). Actually, it would require quite a few johns to support each girl (and her pimp).
2. Research on prostitution gives various estimates of the number of johns per prostitute. One estimate is that the average prostitute has 694 paid encounters per year (which the researchers claim is a conservative estimate). (Source: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=11027304) Let’s assume that they’re not all unique, i.e., that johns are habitual and visit a “provider” once a month. Then we’re talking about 694/12 = 58 johns per girl.
3. To support 100,000 such underage prostitutes would therefore require something like 6 million johns with a monthly habit. (100,000*58=5.8 million) (Of course, if they didn’t go monthly, it would require even more johns.)
4. How many men are in the pool who might be johns? Well, they have to be old enough to have the money to spend (let’s say at least 20 years old) and young enough to still have a sex drive (let’s say at most 60 years). The number of American men in that range is approximately 78 million. (Source: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/idbpyrs.pl?cty=US&out=s&ymax=300)
5. If there are 6 million habitual johns in a possible pool of 78 million men, then one in thirteen of such men are patronizing child prostitutes.
6. I don’t know about you, but I don’t know anybody who is doing this (even taking into account their possible reluctance to brag about it). Furthermore, the only way such a large number of men could be involved would require plenty of word-of-mouth (since advertising would be out of the question), and I’ve never heard anything about it – have you?
7. Next time you’re in the office, or school, or church, or at a ball game, look around and see if you think 1/13 of the men are perverted enough – not to mention accepting of the risk of very long prison terms if caught – to be patronizing child prostitutes with an average age of 11.
My point, of course, is that estimates like these, especially coming from sources with an agenda, and reported in the press, which, as ThinkDifferent said in post 86, “is so easily confused by anything doing with statistics,” should be taken with a pound of salt. I am not justifying, extenuating, or minimizing the sex trafficking of children. As I said in an earlier post, the perpetrators should be locked up and the keys discarded. I just don’t believe the problem is a great as reported, and I know that most FReepers read what’s reported in the press very skeptically, as they should.
my thoughts exactly!