Pros And Cons Of Sex Trafficking

Foster care is often portrayed as the glorious system in which children are placed in temporary homes, until a permanent family is found for them. Human trafficking, however, is commonly known for its violent nature in which free humans become sex slaves to pimps and are sold to Johns nightly. Foster care seems consistently painted in a positive light, while Human Trafficking is known for it’s negative nature. There are theories as to why this may be such; as the foster care is a product of the United States government, while the trafficking of humans is something the government wish’s to terminate. Others even claim Human trafficking in a less negative light, claiming victims to be convicts and should be jailed for their ‘consensual”
At the age of 14, Keisha, a child of the state, found herself on the streets after having chosen to run away from her foster home; as a means of freedom from the sexual harassment inflicted on her by one of her foster family's relatives. It is here she met a 26-year-old man who lured her with promises of finding her biological family with money they’d receive if Keisha sold herself to only a few men. This is the con used that ended with Keisha being trapped, abused, and forced to have sex with an increasing number of men each night. Keisha was not treated as a victim of a crime in this situation, when caught by authorities; instead she found herself twice arrested for ‘prostitution’. After time in jail and having been sent to her previous foster home, Keisha found herself running back into the arms of her trafficker. (Survivor Story: From Foster Care to Sex Trafficking, Polaris). Even after the abuse and trauma inflicted on her in her time as a sex slave; Keisha still saw her sex trafficking to be a better option when compared to a life lived within the government’s Foster care system. In this case, blasphemies of the Foster care system were so, that they resulted in the overturn of the, more commonly known, blasphemies of human trafficking. This leave’s one to ponder what commonalities lie within the Foster care system and human
That human trafficking is a corrupt business in which individuals are taken against their will, and become forced to a life of abuse. These claims also note Foster care, to be a system put in place to better the lives of young people, coming from poor living situations. In these regards, there are little to no commonalities between human trafficking and foster care. In these regards, there are little to no commonalities between human trafficking and foster care. In contrast to this view of modern foster care; a recent, local court case ruled the Texas foster system to have inflicted years of neglect and abuse upon the children within its fostering