Research Paper On Sex Trafficking

Children within the United States who are being trafficked are part of what is called, domestic minor sex trafficking. These adolescents are citizens who have been forced, coerced, or misled to become a part of the commercial sex industry. Some of the most common ways to force minors into trafficking is through exotic dancing also known as stripping, brothels, porn, escorting, and massage services just to name a few (Minor Domestic Sex Trafficking). It is disturbing to know that there are children who are going through this. In order to create prevention and intervention programs for trafficking, it is important to understand what a sex trafficker is and the strategies they use to recruit children.

Nothing drives emotions out the window more than hearing about innocent children being used for sex. In Cambodia, sex trafficking has grown into a troublesome issue. Sex trafficking has become one of the fastest growing crimes occurring internationally. It is the third largest crime-business in the world, after drugs and arms trafficking. Women, girls, and even men and boys are victims of the billion-dollar sex trafficking industry. Sex trafficking occurs everywhere, and it is not culturally specific, but a gender specific issue. There are numerous cases of sex trafficking within Cambodia, however child sex trafficking is extremely captivating and distressing to learn about.

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Have you ever walked into Wal-Mart and taken the time to look at the numerous pictures of missing youth that is plastered on the wall? When looking at how long they have been missing, it ranges anywhere from months to years. Looking at their age, both boys and girls, it’s hard not to wonder if they have been kidnapped and are being trafficked. Child sex trafficking also known as human trafficking is a major issue that is not only plaguing the United States, but also the world. Residing in a state where teen sex trafficking is very common, it is imperative that not only adults, but youth as well understand what child sex/human trafficking is, what is a sex-trafficker, and data that displays how serious child sex trafficking is.

Child sex trafficking is the profitable sexual act induced by force, fraud, coercion or a person is lured to have sex before they reach 18 years of age. It includes all the activities of recruiting, harboring, patronizing, advertising, transporting or obtaining children for sexual services involuntarily, through servitude, debt bondage, peonage or slavery. Due to advanced technology, it has acquired new course. It has become a complex phenomenon involving multiple stakeholders at commercial as well as institutional level. It is the modern-day form of slavery perpetrated against minors regardless of their race, class, socioeconomic status, education, gender, cultural conditions or citizenship (“Department of Justice," 2015).

Although men are also victims of trafficking, women and children are most likely to be exploited and coerced. The International Labor Organization (as cited in Cecchet & Thoburn, 2014) estimates that 98% of the victims of sex trafficking are women and children. For the purpose of this assignment, I chose to focus on women and children and review the different ways to advocate for them.

After her father raped her, Jean became one of the hundreds of thousands kids in the United States long-term foster care, a system that often leaves children more damaged than when they arrive. For Jean, selling sex seemed like a safer bet. Her experience is not unfortunately not uncommon for the thousands of child sex trafficking victims in the United States. These children are forced into prostitution and other heinous acts by sex traffickers, or “pimps”. Buyers, called “johns” create a great demand for these services which is causing the industry to grow dramatically. In the United States, victims of sex trafficking experience emotional and physical suffering because of their involvement at young ages, and the government needs to more

This semester for my service learning project, I decided to learn about the topic of human sex trafficking. The organization, The Ruth House, is one of the many organizations dedicated to helping those in need. The founder Dr. Donna Sallee’ believes in using the faith of Jesus Christ to minister to those women and children in need.

A young girl from Nepal, filled with hopes and dreams, moves to America. She, like anyone who moves to the United States, wishes to get a job and start earning money. (Transition) A family friend provides her the transportation she needs to get to America and sets her up with a job in the new country. She arrives in America and meets her employer. Unknowingly, the young girl has been sold into slavery by her family friend in America. In that moment, her whole life turned upside down and her heart filled with fear. Everyday thousands of women, men, and children are sold into the sex industry and feel the same way as the young girl. (Transition)(explain the way she feels) The effects of sex trafficking are psychological

With the development of social networking sites, chat rooms, and other web based communication sites, cyber-sex trafficking has hit record highs. According to “What is Sex trafficking” (2015), sex trafficking occurs when a person uses force, fraud, or coercion for a commercial sex act with either an adult or a child (“What is Sex Trafficking,” 2015). Sex trafficking is not only limited to women and girls, this heinous crime also affects males and young boys. Sex trafficking is a vicious cycle that incorporates the trafficker, the victim, and the buyer. The victim is the adult or child being brought into the sex trafficking ring. The trafficker lures the victim in often by promises of a better life and the buyer is the criminal who purchases

As human trafficking expands in the United States, adults are not the only ones being bought and sold. Children are also target of trafficking, online and in person, at a higher rate (Tidball, Zheng, & Creswell, 2016). Child trafficking is the recruitment and movement of people that are younger than 18 for the purposes of sexual exploitation (Ottisova et al., 2018). This type of trafficking occurs online when pimp’s lure unsuspicious minors with false promises (Tidball et al., 2016). Pimps commonly advertise children for sexual exploitation online, and they search social networking sites for young victims for ways to trap them and become sex slaves (Dysart, 2013).

The League of Nations acted immediately, although trafficking was not one of it’s original plans. Starting in 1921, the League of Nations started to send out questionnaire’s to countries asking about what they were doing to prevent women and children from being trafficked and being forced to work in the job market. After having an immediate and huge response from the nations, the League of Nations created some procedures and plans that would help them to combat this problem . In 1921, The International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children (1921), was held with attendance from around thirty-four countries. During this convention, the International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children

Sex trafficking of children is an appalling health and human rights violation that occurs everyday within the borders of the United States (U.S.) and possibly even hidden within your own community (McClain & Garrity, 2011). Specifically, domestic minor sex trafficking is defined as the commercial sexual exploitation of children that live in the United States. This type of crime involves the solicitation of a commercial sex act that is developed through the use of force, deceit or coercion by a trafficker, also known as a “pimp” (Ernwein & Nieves, 2015). Currently, customers’ demand for sex with children remains steady, while the profit to pimps continues to increase, fueling the industry and accruing several billion dollars annually, making

I believe that the education of sexual exploitation and overcoming sexual exploitation is increasingly important especially as sexual abuse cases rise, ‘the number of child sexual abuse reported to the police has soared from 5,557 cases in 2011 to 8,892 in the last year’. (Travis, 2015)

Imagine a four year old girl growing up in contemporary Cambodia. Each morning she wakes up miles from home, homesick and scared. She is forced to beg for money for the brothel that she belongs to, and all of her earnings go straight to her master. Then, that night, about seven men come to the brothel. These men, some as old as fifty, often pay as little as two dollars to partake in sexual intercourse with these school-aged children. The toddlers enslaved in the horrific sex trade are forever stripped of their purity, making human trafficking a major issue in present day Cambodia. Over 30,000 children are sexually exploited annually (“Children for Sale”), and millions have been forced into human trafficking