Note: This is the second post appearing on FAIPs as part of the 16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER BASED VIOLENCE (November 25 - December 20, 2012). Posts appearing here will look at this issue with a focus on our most vulnerable and defenseless - our children. On July 29, 2010, the President and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Ernie Allen, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives. His testimony revealed the alarming and truths of innocence lost on Main Street, USA. What we know as "child trafficking", Allen reported, is an organized criminal illicit enterprise that preys on our most vulnerable - our children.
At the time of his testimony, over 250,000 children between the ages of 10 to 17 were estimated to be involved in commercial sexual exploitation in the US and of that number, 150,000 were victims of child prostitution. It is important to note, that these numbers are a per year estimate and NOT a total estimate. In fact, Allen conservatively asserts that roughly 200,000 plus runaway/thrownaway girls [between 12 and 17 years old] are lured into prostitution each year.
These children become the slaves of their pimps, their abductors, their slave masters who more times than not, hiding in plain site. They no longer put their victims out on the corners of Skid Row, but rather use the internet to solicit their patrons. Their iron chains and shackles have been replaced by fear, drugs, false hope and the inability to simply walk away.
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