Summary Of Sex Trafficking By Karla Jacinto

Introduction Story Karla Jacinto is sitting in a serene garden. She looks at the ordinary sights of flowers and can hear people beyond the garden walls, walking and talking in Mexico City.
She looks straight into my eyes, her voice cracking slightly, as she tells me the number she wants me to remember -- 43,200.By her own estimate, 43,200 is the number of times she was raped after falling into the hands of human traffickers. She says up to 30 men a day, seven days a week, for the best part of four years -- 43,200. Her story highlights the brutal realities of human trafficking in Mexico and the United States, an underworld that has destroyed the lives of tens of thousands of Mexican girls like Karla. Human trafficking has become a trade so lucrative
Leaving a place of poverty to gain wealth. Many victims want to get out there situation so they risk everything to leave the place that sees them mired in poverty. Traffickers liee, promising job and stability in order to recruit their victims. Usually upon their arrival to another state or region that captors take control. With little opportunities of upward mobility with little value placed on women and girls, they are more vulnerable to human trafficking. Their family has either been passed away or are fighting a war. War creates large numbers of orphans and street children who are especially vulnerable to trafficking. Armed conflicts and lead to massive forced displacements of people. The destabilization and scattering of populations increase their vulnerability to unfair treatment and abusive trafficking and forced labor. “www.centerforglobalimpact.com” Human trafficking is the fastest growing and second largest criminal industry in the world after drug trafficking. Human trafficking generates a huge profit of $150 billion a year. ⅔ is made from commercial sexual exploitation the remainder comes from forced economic exploitation, such as domestic work. Like modern slavery trafficking is similar. Human trafficking can be separated into sex or labor. Though they have different problems. Women and children are targets. Traditional additions and practices, early marriage and lack of birth registration further increase the susceptibility of women and children. They are also targeted simply for the demand for sex. Woman and children make up 98% of the victims trafficked. Business owners are guilty of this behavior continue to practice these illegal norms because the victims of trafficking can early protect themselves and they have very few alternatives. Both traffickers and consumers know the risk they take by participating in this illegal behavior and will do there best to cover it up. Consumers of human trafficking also contribute