Ethos Argument: Poverty
Eng. Comp II
Danen Jobe
Traffic Jam: Prevention, Protection, and Prosecution
Imagine that it is a beautiful day outside and you decide to take your child out for a walk. With stores conveniently located on most corners and a neighborhood park nearby, the possibilities of where you can take your child is endless. As a parent it is pertinent to teach your child the basic rules to survival as early as the child can comprehend the lessons. These survival lessons vary from teaching them to look both ways before crossing the street, to sneeze away from their food, to wash their hands, and to never take candy from a stranger. Lessons like the few that I mentioned above barely open the book of how to survive …show more content…
This includes: recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons. Contrary to some misconceptions, human trafficking crimes do not require any smuggling or movement of the victim. While undocumented migrants are particularly vulnerable to coercion because of their fear of authorities, traffickers have demonstrated their ability to exploit other vulnerable populations and have preyed just as aggressively on documented guest workers and U.S. citizen children. Second, is the element of how trafficking is executed. Also known as the means or in other words, how it is done. This element can vary from threat or use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, and deception, abuse of power or vulnerability, or giving payments or benefits to a person in control of the victim. Lastly, the third element consist of the purpose of exploitation, which includes exploiting the prostitution of others, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery or similar practices and the removal of …show more content…
The anonymous tipster confessed to taking the victims to the streets to find customers and then to an apartment to preform sexual transactions. It has also been reported that the victims were told they had debts of anywhere from $10,000.00-$20,000.00 to pay off since the abductor family had paid to smuggle them into the country. Strong threats were made by the Venezuela-Vasquez family in order to petrify the victims in prevention to rebellion or escape. Out of fear that their own families would be harmed by retaliated death, the victims cooperated. The members of the Venezuela-Vasquez family were prosecuted and later sentenced to 40 years in