Slavery – Not For Sale: End Human Trafficking and Slavery
Children Are Not Prostitutes!!
Young boys and girls in every city on the globe today are forced to serve as sex slaves. Sex traffickers target twelve to seventeen years old children as their choice candidates. The johns who pay regular visits to brothels prefer adolescents above any other age group. Looked at from the cold perspective of a slaveholder, adolescents also have a longer shelf life. Any older and they start to lose their youthful appeal. Any younger and they may draw the attention of law enforcement authorities.
Because sex trafficking masks itself as prostitution, the general public does not feel outraged. The children are perceived to be criminals or sexual deviants or at best victims of their environment: desperate for survival, the kids “choose” to sell their bodies for profit.
Recruitment- Traffickers target children most commonly from communities that lack social power, at times with the consent of the victims parents.
Extraction- Traffickers remove recruits from their home community and shift them to a destination where they are unlikely to get support from law enforcement bodies or the general citizenry.
Control- Slaveholders seek control over every aspect of the child’s life so that escape becomes unthinkable.
Violence- Slaveholders exercise violence as a means to reinforce their control and ensure compliance.
Exploitation- Slaveholders show slight regard for the physical or emotional health of the child in their pursuit of financial gain.
