Have you ever imagined being forced against you're will to do vile and disgusting acts? This is what hundreds upon thousands of women go through a year. $32 billion dollars a year is accumulated by the works of this “underground industry” called Human Sex Trafficking. (Fox2) Kidnapping, manipulating, and selling are three words that can describe what horrific action are taken towards the young victims in this business. Sex trafficking is 90% women and girls. (Sex Trafficking) Over 50,000 women are trafficked into the United States every year. (Sex Trafficking) It happens all over the country, especially in the cracks of America. Sex trafficking is just as big of a problem found in America as it is internationally. The lack of law enforcement towards this social issue has created a persistent business instead of a complete halt to this tragedy. There are a variety of definitions for what Human Sex Trafficking could mean but most explanations are followed or understood by three main “bottom-line” sources. The Office of the Attorney General article states the California Legislative definition as any involvement of things such as recruitment, abduction, and transportation within the country through force for slavery or labor (What is Human Sex Trafficking?) The Office of the Attorney General quotes the Federal Law meaning as "deprives or violates the personal liberty of another with the intent . . . to obtain forced labor or services" (What is Human Sex Trafficking?) The article states the ILO (International Labor Organization), also known as an agency of the United States, also defines sex trafficking. It is described as any forms of coercion, fraud, deception, or responsibility of the consent from a perpetrator having total control... ... middle of paper ... ...he large amounts of laws that takes part in any given child-trafficking situation. (States toughen laws) The California Panel Code also plays an effect against sex trafficking in that area. The California Panel Code basically clarifies the criminal procedure system, governing criminal investigations, and practices that handle any of the notified crimes found in this code. (Wikipedia) Unfortunately, California was graded an F because of its weak laws and disappointing demands that lacks on addresses this social issue. (States toughen laws) What may have formed this problem and created such a low grade in California could be because of the complications of being penalized under the trafficking law when perpetrators are profited financially from supporting sex trafficking, and disturbingly “minimal penalties” are applied to pornography offenders (States toughen laws)
Many American citizens know of the criminal act of sex trafficking in third world countries, but very few know how much it takes place in the United States. In America prostitution, pornography, and stripping are all considered acts of sex trafficking when they are forced on the victim. This increased crime has led to victimization, physical and psychological effects and after-effects of American and international victims. The government is aware of the slavery of humans taking place in this country and it has to release funds in creating programs for sex trafficking survivors and re-authorize the act that protects sex trafficking victims, in order to support the equal rights for every citizen.
Every year in the united states, thousands of children and adults are forced into human trafficking. In the united states alone, because the estimated amount of money being earned from this despicable business is in the billions, the united states as a country should be embarrassed by the amount of people forc...
Almost 150 years ago, the United States eliminated slavery. Most Californians most likely would disagree and say slavery still exist, right in their backyards. Human sex trafficking is a substantial huge industry in California and about $32 billion dollars is involve. It is one of the furthermost challenging crimes to track. The United States did not start monitoring trafficked individuals until 1994; it started being included in the Department’s Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (Wordpress.com, 2009). There were more than 4000 convictions worldwide related to trafficking in the last year (Human Trafficking Awareness Partnership, 2013). Traffickers use young women and children as products and sell them to gain a profit (Free Legal Advice Help, 2007). These young women and children are often captured by the traffickers with deals where they were promised a better life. In other cases these victims are sold by their parents, husbands, boyfriends or outright kidnapped. The victims are then at the point their involuntary turn into sex slaves for money that they certainly never receive. These victims are exposed to painful and brutal treatment. They feel pain at the hands of their kidnappers on a day-to-day basis to ensure their complete participation.
Assessing government efforts became very difficult. It’s difficult to get the government’s support when some traffickers are willing to become victims. Prosecutors need the help of the government to win trafficking cases. The Mexico government issued forced regulations for the 2012 anti-trafficking law. According to state.gov “continued to operate a secured shelter in the capital for female sex trafficking victims involved in the legal process against their traffickers.” The government is trying to come up with the best prevention activities and ideas. According to state.gov “It was difficult to receive government efforts to identify and help victims and to look into prosecuting trafficking cases, as data collection on victim identification and law enforcement efforts was uneven.
Trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation and provision of a person for the purpose of commercial sex. American trafficking victims are estimated to be between 100,000 and 300,000. Most of these are from the million are so children that are thrown out of their home or they have run away usually to escape abuse and/or sexual violence. (Shelley, pg. 230) The law says that a person under the age of 18 has to have been defrauded, forced or coerced into the sex trade against their will. Sex trafficking venues are wide and vast. Victims of sex trafficking can be found in brothels, strip clubs, esc...
Defining human trafficking can be difficult due to the fact that it can be confused with other illegal activities such as smuggling and consented prostitution. In the essay Human Trafficking: Modern Day Slavery In The 21st Century , Shaden Mohajerin states that human trafficking can be defined as the transferring, harboring, and transportation of persons which is accomplished through force, coercion, kidnapping, and deception (...
“[A] mom secured a "certificate of virginity" from a doctor for her daughter and sold the girl to man who raped her in a hotel for two days. After the ordeal, [the girl] was sold to brothels on three occasions and finally escaped to a safe house after learning that her mom planned to send her away for a six-month prostitution stint. ” (Goldberg, 2015) This is only one form of human trafficking, and it is quite shocking that it is so prevalent in the world today. But what is human trafficking, exactly?
Sex trafficking is a term that covers a range of activities. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines it as “a modern-day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under the age of 18 years” (The Campaign 1). Victims of sex trafficking may be forced to do any number of activities to earn money for their traffickers. These include “prostitution, pornography, stripping, live-sex shows, mail-order brides, military prostitution and sex tourism” (10). Wherever there is demand for the sexual exploitation of a certain type of individual, such as teenage girls, young boys or children, traffickers will find people to meet that demand. Unfortunately, this puts innocent people in situations where they are taken advantage of.
Sex trafficking is the real immigration problem and is one of the most heinous crimes. There are thousands of innocent women, men, and children trafficked from all areas of the world and being used as they slavery. Many of these victims are being forced, bought as prostitution, involuntary labor, and sold as sex slaves, peonage, and other forms of servitude to settle up debts. Sex traffickers are one of the top destinations in the U.S. According to "Human Trafficking - Exploitation of Illegal Aliens," “It is estimated that 14,500 to 17,500 foreign nationals are trafficked into the United States each year. Trafficking is the recruitment and transportation of persons within or across boundaries by force, fraud, or deception for the purpose of exploiting them economically. Victims are lured with false promises of good jobs and better lives, and then forced to work under brutal and inhuman conditions. Victims of trafficki...
With girls out there like Susannah getting tricked into the evil trafficking business everyday, it brings much discomfort because these girls are forced to perform sexual activities and are kept in dingy holes and drugged to keep them from retaliating. All this inhumane torture goes on in the trafficking business, and yet the laws are not helping with eliminating these injustices. With each year, those 50,000 women increase; more and more victims are brought into the United States, forced against their will, or promised false futures of working good jobs to bring money back home to their families.
The US federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act defines sex trafficking as “The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act where such an act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age”. The commercial aspect of trafficking is critical to distinguishing between sexual assault and trafficking. There must be an exchange of anything of value such as money, food or shelter for a sex act for it to be established as trafficking. Children are commercially sexually exploited through prostitution, pornography and e...
One reason why human trafficking is a serious crime that many people are unaware of is because it secretly takes place in the United States. Between 2007 and 2012, there were reports of 9,298 different cases of human trafficking (Polaris Project). An example of how unknown this topic is is that 41% of sex trafficking cases and 20% of labor trafficking cases were proven to have United States citizens as victims (Polaris Project). And this is only what we know so far. There are thousands of cases that we don’t know about. Many people also don’t know that men, women, and even children are also taken hostage by human traffickers. An example of this would be that out of those 9,298 cases that were reported, women were victims of sex trafficking in 85% of those cases. Men were victims of labor trafficking in 40% of those cases (Polaris Project). Approximately 300,000 children are at risk of being prostituted in the United States (U.S. Department of Justice). Children are even more under the radar than we know about. On average, one in three teenagers on the street will be lured toward prostitution within 48 hours of leaving their home (National Runaway Hotline). For example, two female friends who were minors ran away from home and were prom...
Human trafficking is a form of contemporary slavery that entails the use of deception, force, or other methods of coercion to entice victims into servitude. Every year, millions of women, men, and children become the victims of exploitation whether it involves forced labor or the commercial sex trade. Human trafficking is a global phenomenon that affects millions of people from all continents, thus specific policies need to be designed for each region and a global effort is required to end it.
Human trafficking is a form of modern slaver and a multi-billion-dollar criminal industry that denies freedom to 24.9 million people around the world. Unfortunately, it could be happening where you live or somewhere nearby. Out of the 24.9 million people, 16 million were exploited for labor, 4.8 million were sexually exploited, and 4.1 million were exploited in state-imposed forced labor (“Human Trafficking,” 2017). The three most common types of human trafficking are sex trafficking, forced labor, and debt bondage (“Who are Human,” 2014). All trafficking victims share one thing and that is their loss of freedom. Human traffickers can earn roughly $150 billion a year. To breakdown the profits: $99 billion comes from commercial sexual exploitation,
According to equatlitynow.org, about 20 million men, women and children are victims of being sold each year into sexual trafficking, forced labor, and bonded labor. Here it says that trafficking women and children for sexual exploitation is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world bringing in 32 billion profits each year. Also it says that women make up to 98% of sex trafficking and about 2 million children are exploited every year in the global commercial sex trade. The site “Force 4 Compassion” says and I quote “Are you aware that 3,287 people are sold or kidnapped and forced into slavery every day? Not many people are. That's 136 an hour and that's just the reported cases.” Human trafficking is a very serious issue in today’s society that is overlooked by many which can lead to unawareness and safety issues to you and loved ones. With those percentages and statistics in mind remember that there is no exact number for the actual amount of human trafficking is committed every year, these are just the numbers from cases found before and an average of what it might be. These numbers are already way higher than should be and is why we must be aware and always cautious when going new places or even walking the streets where you live now. This issue isn’t talked about frequently mainly because most