Effects Of Sex Trafficking

Human trafficking is one of the many faces of organized crime. Human trafficking is a broad term which contains trafficking for the purpose of sex along with the exploitation of labor. Currently, there are 20.9 million victims of sex slavery (Stacy.j.cecchet 2014 482) whom have or are suffering suffer inhumane circumstances and consequences. Sex trafficking is one of the largest criminal activities in the world (Stacy 249). Vulnerable women and children are taken advantage of and thrown into sex slavery, yet there is no explanation available as to how women and children are taken and thrown into the industry within countries such as Canada and the United States of America (482 Stacy j Cecchet 2014), which have human rights protection. Sex slavery leaves everlasting mental and physical effects on the abused women and children being trafficked. Even though sex trafficking is a crime it is also, for a lack of better words, an industry which would cease to exist if it was not for the supply and demand for women and children.

Sex trafficking is a problem that is happening and occurring all over the world. Many families and individuals suffer due to sex trafficking. Many people are not even aware of what it really is. Sex trafficking is when young girls, as young as five or six, get kidnapped and are used for the sexual pleasure of others with a profit, or are sold as sex slaves to other people. The official definition is, “Human sex trafficking is a form of slavery and involuntary servitude resulting in grave human rights violations. Sex trafficking involves individuals profiting from the sexual exploitation of others and has severe physical and psychological consequences for its victims.” (The

Imagine driving down the street at night seeing no one on the corner half dressed trying to get money, or scrolling through a website and have a pop up come up about buying someone. Sex trafficking has become apart of everyday life. Many people are taken everyday and forced into the ring of sex trafficking. One girl spent her whole childhood getting raped by her father and then forced to go out to bars every night and sleep with other men, then go to school the next day (Sher). Sex trafficking is a problem in the United States that can not be ignored no longer.

Many people argue that slavery ended with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment; however, slavery is still prevalent in America, as well as all over the world, in the form of human trafficking. With about twenty to thirty million slaves globally, society is facing a growing problem that is often overlooked. Human trafficking greatly affects the mental and physical states of its victims, hinders the progression of gender equality for women, and requires substantial efforts to be made in the future in order to end the suffering of those affected.

About 62% of girls who are brought into sex trafficking have a huge lack of a stable home life, and a large majority of these girls suffer from childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence at home, poverty, and running away lead to a much greater threat. About 374 girls have trafficked per day in Atlanta alone, and 100 juveniles per night. These girls have come from a difficult a background and need to feel safe in their lives. A vast majority of these girls have not felt loved and have felt endangered in their homes. On March 12, 2017, 168 girls were found in Texas, and only 117 of those girls were reported missing. The girls were all under that age of 18 and victims of sex trafficking. 95% of sex trafficking victims are uneducated not only in school but also about sex trafficking. Also, these girls are young, and a source says that 45% of the victims of sex trafficking have not received a substantial education past the 7th grade. These girls have not been taught about the warning signs of sex trafficking and how to defend themselves. In fact, many girls in America do not even understand the effects of sex trafficking. In the end, these girls are faced with a battle that most are not prepared for, but with assistance and education, they could become more

One-third of the victims of sex trafficking are underage. The girls had met a ‘friend’ who promised the girls that they could get away from their parents. This is one of the most used terms the pimps use to get young girls and teens. Even if the girls go willingly the act of forcing these girls to have sex is illegal. In most cases the girls are under constant watch even out on the streets. They are placed in a room that is locked, the windows are covered, and

There is a global issue growing and it’s knocking on our own back door here in the United States. It’s a problem that affects millions of women, men, and children. This issue is the third largest global criminal enterprise. So what is the issue? The issue is modern day slavery, better known as human trafficking. Worldwide, there are over 20 million human trafficking victims, and of that 26% are children, and 55% are women and girls. In 2015 it was reported that 1 out of 5 endangered runaways reported to the National Center of Exploited and Missing Children were likely sex trafficking victims; furthermore, 74% of them were children in the care of social services and foster care when

For example, according to the article Child Welfare and Human Trafficking, adolescents who have grown up in foster care or how have experienced abuse are found to often times be more likely to be trafficked, due to their state of vulnerability. Also, children who are in homeless or have ran away are also at a much higher risk of getting human trafficked. In Edward J. Schauer and Elizabeth M. Wheaton’s criminal justice review they state some of the ways traffickers force the children to do what they ask, which includes threats and physical and sexual abuse. The traffickers are using these tactics to taking advantage of these children’s troubled home life and their inability to take care and stand up for themselves. Even though these kids are growing up in the welfare system or without a home, their safety is just as important as the next and should not be compromised. The children who have grown up in this unfortunate way did not have a choice and we need to start to do everything in our power to make sure that they are living in a safe home where they are getting the best care they

Where does your mind wander when someone talks about child trafficking? Do you think of children from third world countries being kidnapped or sold into the black market of human trafficking? Most of us probably think of human trafficking as being an issue that poor countries just have but, that isn’t the case. Human trafficking is alive and sadly thriving in the United States. According to Trafficking Source Center, 5,544 cases of human trafficking were reported in the United States in 2015. With human trafficking being around for so long, nations have to find ways to create tougher laws, find a way to focus on the issue, and create better safe havens for the victims of the crime.

Women who were forced into sex trafficking had to service or perform sexual acts with 300 men at $100.00 an incident to pay off the $30,000.00 debt they owed to their traffickers. Consequently, sex trafficking victims are kept in servitude, and forced to perform sexual acts or have sex with strange men. Once free of their traffickers getting the help they need to be able to function in everyday society is not easy or easily accessible.

Sex Trafficking in the U.S. is an article by Rachel Chinapen found inside the textbook Women’s Voices Feminist Vision. In this article the the author discusses the reality of sex trafficking in the United States still going on today. According to one of her sources, Love 146, More than 100,000 U.S children are forced to engage in prostitution or pornography in combination to $32 billion being spent worldwide on trafficking. The two examples that Chinapen gave were two women named Shandra Woworuntu and Ms. Richards. Shandra Woworuntu came to the U. S. from Indonesia to pursue a job in the hotel business but as soon as she arrived her passport and other identification was taken. For years she suffered in sex trafficking she was able to escape.

Sex traffickers use violence, threats, lies, debt bondage, and other forms of coercion to compel adults and children to engage in commercial sex acts against their will. Under U.S. federal law, any minor under the age of eighteen years induced into commercial sex is a victim of sex trafficking—regardless of whether or not the trafficker used force, fraud, or coercion (polarisproject). That being said many of these women and children are either threaten or given a false promise or a good job, some fall in love with the person forcing them to prostitute themselves or some of these women and children are sold by their families to pay off debt. Sex trafficking is global issue but to attack the problem we need to start within our borders and try to minimize the situation at home. Human trafficking is widely known and practice, but we fail to protect the victims. Our failure to stop this allows the traffickers to continue abusing their victims, which sadly ae the most vulnerable out there, children and

Public problems come in all shapes and sizes. A public problem can be as minor as pot holes in the street to as major as human trafficking and everything in between. In what is known as modern slavery, the domestic problem of child sex trafficking in the United States affects 100,000 American children every year. (Tichen, 2014) The problem of child sex trafficking is something that I am very interested in helping to tackle. Recently I had the opportunity to speak with a representative from a local shelter that assists children that have been removed from a sex trafficking situation. This conversation was very eye opening and made me realize how truly huge this problem is. The funding for local non-profit organizations is not optimal and

In the world we live in today, sex trafficking exists under the surface of society and has for many years. People of different races, religions, and cultures cannot prevent them or another person from being a victim of sex trafficking. Sex trafficking happens in multiple ways and involves various things during the act. When forced or sold into sex trafficking, escaping the involvement and lifestyles become increasingly hard for the victims. All around the world, there are people who could possibly have been victims or still are victims that show signs which go unnoticed from the lack of knowledge of the subject. With more awareness and knowledge of the topic, sex trafficking can end.

. The narrative interviews were conducted in a secure, private office designed to make the participants feel safe. “The primary investigator started with demographic information, such as age, ethnicity, etc, and then moved onto questions that focused on personal histories, their experiences being sex trafficked, how they were recruited, their exiting process, and the psychological effects of surviving sex trafficking” (Domoney et al., 485). All six women are American citizens, speak English as their first language and range from 22- 55 years old. Four participants identified as being African American, one identified being Caucasian, and one identified as being Mixed (Domoney et al., 486). Although there is a wide age range between participants