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Sex Trafficking--It Happens in America, Too

by Michelle Says So | July 14, 2009 at 04:14 pm

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When you ask the average American what they think of sex trafficking and where it originates, you will most likely hear, “Thailand, Philippines, Eastern Europe.” The majority of Americans don’t believe that most sex trafficking occurs within our own borders. Many victims are regular kids and young women who aren’t runaways or have been abandoned. They are lured and coerced by clever predators.

FBI Deputy Assistant Director, Chip Burrus, who started the Lost Innocence Project, which specializes in child and teen sex trafficking stated, “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…predators are going to do everything in their power to try to convince young girls, young boys, to come with them and enter this particular lifestyle.”

The United States is recognized among the top three countries for sex traffickers, along with Japan and Australia. Traffickers pick locales and business “fronts” in cities all over the country, but many choose to “set up shop” in areas such as San Francisco, New York, Arizona, Las Vegas and other cities and counties that would make your jaw drop.

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Babel-Fish

at 17:27 on July 14th, 2009

It's disgusting, Anyone that has paid for sex or pays for sex could have supported this evil trade and its a problem in most countries.

Michelle Says So

at 17:42 on July 14th, 2009

Babel-Fish--don't forget to watch the two videos of that doctor caught on hidden video in Cambodia talking about how and where to get the young girls. He said he would pay "50 bucks for 3 girls...for the entire night." The best part is when they come back to him with the hidden video and BUST HIM and he stutters and freaks out. I love it. They should do a follow up show on what happened to him. LOSER and DEVIANT!

smorrison20

at 17:54 on July 14th, 2009

That whole documentary was just an amassing eye opener to the world of sex trafficking. I knew it went on but the whole sex truism thing was shocking.

Delilah

at 10:19 on July 21st, 2009

Hoping that Americans will get their heads out of the sand and realize what the hell is going on in our own backyard! It's not "over there" it's right here, our daughters and sons who are being bought and sold and kidnapped! Make it stop!