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by CJaye | January 25, 2009 at 08:13 am
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More than 1,000 mostly young women in the United States were forced into sexual slavery last year, an alarming new Justice Department report has found.The Bureau of Justice Statistics analyzed thousands of cases of alleged human trafficking. It found that the sex trade accounted for more than three out of every four human trafficking cases tracked by the Justice Department.
Anytime anyone is forced into prostitution, they are considered “trafficked,” according to the Justice Department. Children 17 or under who are in prostitution are considered trafficked whether they were coerced or not.
According to the report, about a quarter of the nation’s sex slaves were under 17; two-fifths were between 18 and 24.
Hispanic women and girls were most likely to be victims of the human traffickers. They made up about two-fifths of sexual slaves and more than half of trafficked laborers.
The Justice Department also found that U.S. citizens make up the majority of victims and perpetrators in human trafficking. Nearly two-thirds of sex slaves were U.S. citizens. Nearly three-quarters of suspected sex traffickers were U.S. citizens, the report found.
Andrea Powell, co-founder of FAIR Fund, a D.C.-based anti-trafficking group, said trafficking is a major regional problem.
“D.C. is a hot spot for labor trafficking as well as sex trafficking,” Powell told The Examiner. “Foreign nationals are brought into the area to work as nannies, house domestics and even on construction sites. Sex trafficking affects both foreign and national victims.”
About 40 trafficking victims are rescued in the D.C. area every month, Powell said.
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at 22:54 on January 25th, 2009
I hope the Obama administration is serious about strategies to fight 'modern day slavery', particularly sex trafficking, a crime against humanity which is growing an an exponential rate.
at 17:04 on January 26th, 2009
This number is low...look at all the street kids who are selling themselves...there is a waiting list for some HIV treatment and all the time Gates is inoculating Africa...
at 19:31 on January 26th, 2009
Most numbers aren't true they are still treating victims is if they were criminals. Until this stops numbers will be wrong. I too hope things will change until then we will continue to fight to educate the public on human sex trafficking.
at 02:48 on January 28th, 2009
Important story, CJake. People often don't really want to know the facts!
at 10:47 on January 28th, 2009
This is true but they have to start opening their eyes, it's not going away. When it hits them then they will look. Glendene Grant will tell you it's hell on earth and she lives it everyday. A rock she is, a real hero in my book the way she helps others to heal and direct them in their search for their loved ones. When all a long, her daughter is still out there missing. She got me involved all it takes is the want to make change. I can't believe people think it's ok to have sex with children? To sell children, teenagers, or somebodies daughter, mother or neice to human sex trafficking or into forced prostitution. It rips my gut out to think what might be happening to these children and to the others. I would do anything for Glendene to help find Jessie. We all need to come together on this issue we need to do it real soon because human sex trafficking it's becoming a fast growing commodity.
at 16:36 on April 19th, 2009
Next to the arms trade, a lot of experts in the field believe that it is the second most lucrative industry you can be in, even passing up the drug trade.
Judging by the abysmally low number of prosecutions of human traffickers and the lenient sentences meted out, its a relatively low risk proposition.
If you get caught for drug trafficking, particularly in Asia, you are lucky to get off with a long prison sentence.
Where are the headlines? Where is the community outrage?