Sex Trafficking: Fast Growing Crime Of Human Tracking

Sex Trafficking
Sex trafficking is one of many businesses in the fast growing crime of human tracking. All around the world women and children and being forced and sold into sex acts through various ways, and it's very hard to escape. Many of the women that are taken away by the traffickers are minors who are just trying to find a new life. Over 3,287 women and children are kidnapped and forced into sex every day. That’s over 136 people an hour, and keep in mind, those are just the reported cases. It’s out of one's mind to think of how many other unreported cases of sex trafficking there could be, and how many lives are being taken from families all around the world. Thousands of women and children are being pulled into sex trafficking each
The children can be runaway girls who don’t want to be home anymore so they think that running away is the best option. Situations with their family cause them to be so upset, and when a trafficker comes across a girl like that they offer them things like food and shelter to help them get through with it. Instead of trying to convince them to get home like any actual concerned person would, they tell the girls things that will help them to think they don’t need to go back home. These girls are in situations where they become very gullible since they practically have nothing. That is just one of the many way traffickers pick of children, and they make it seem so easy. Other than children, woman can be trafficked through many fake online dating profiles or just being kidnapped in person. An article related to sex trafficking talks about the victims and how to identify them. They state, “Victims of sex trafficking are often young girls who have run away from abusive situations at home and are quickly picked up by traffickers who coerce them into prostitution by promising food, shelter, or clothing” (McBane). That’s the truth about the traffickers and how these poor girls are taken away from their families. The most common victims of sex trafficking are always young girls and women because men are that ones who run the businesses. Younger girls are more vulnerable to
Thousands of victims are being exploited in public and can’t even ask anymore for help. There's such a lack of awareness on this topic and it's something that should be known, what data we have so far of sex trafficking victims, is utterly terrifying. It’s so hard to imagine what these people and their families go through and how they try to cope with it. Only a small portion of the sex trafficking cases have been reported and not all of them have been figured out, leaving the victim to be trapped and pushed deeper into the business. As far as we know there are thousands more unreported cases out there and we have no idea how to help. This is why we should all be aware of sex trafficking, what it is, and how to identify the girls and women out there to stop it all. “Human trafficking happens everywhere, and sex trafficking cases involving children have been found in all regions of the country. No community is immune to the horrors of human trafficking” (Bridget), that was a small portion of what an article had said about sex trafficking. They tried to show the world how we need more awareness and help. Newscast on CNN finally took a step forward by spreading the news onto their page and allowing a well educated woman on the topic to create an article on sex trafficking. The woman summarizes that not every country, city, and small town knows about the