"While many Americans have heard of human trafficking in other parts of the world -- Thailand, Cambodia, Latin America and eastern Europe, for example -- few people know it happens here in the United States. The FBI estimates that well over 100,000 children and young women are trafficked in America today. They range in age from 9 to 19, with the average age being 11."
---I want to use this quote because many dont believe that sex trafficking occurs in the U.S. and it help supports the existence of this teribble act.
Debbie, was 15 when she was abducted from her own driveway. She was waiting for her friend Bianca to arrive. When Bianca arrived, she pulled up in a cadillac with two men, Mark and Matthew. The men made Bianca shove her friend into the vehicle and tie her up and threatened to shoot Bianca if she didnt obey. Debbie was taken to an apartment 25 miles away from her home. There she was treated like a dog and subject to various abuses. She was gang raped and forced to have sex with over 50 men and thats not including the gang rapers who had sex with her on a periodic basis. Her "pimp" broke her down until he gained complete control over her.
Miya, a 19 year old, was working at the mall when she was lured into sex trafficking. She was approached by a young women and nicely dressed man. They said that they were modeling agents looking for new models. They asked her to go back to California with them so they could do more photo shoots at their office and she agreed. They gave her a makeover which she thought was for the photo shoot and had no idea that it would be for a much more "insidious reason." Miya was forced to work as a prostitute.
They both were reunited with their families thanks to the help of law enforcement and having the nerve to endure such harsh conditions. The man who lured Miya was charged with pimping and pandering in connection to the young girl he was traveling with. The people who took Debbie were chaged with kidnapping and sexual assault.
---I would like to use this because it is the summary of two girls who were victims of sex trafficking and it kind of tells bits and pieces of their stories.
When we hear the words "sex trafficking," as Americans we immediately think of women and children overseas who are being forced into the sex trade or who are brought into the United States for the purpose of sexual exploitation. We don't usually think closer to home — Americans trafficked by Americans. But I want you to think about young women and even girls that you have seen late at night when you come home from work or a social event. Maybe you have seen them in the streets in short dresses and spike heels. You turn your heads to look away. We do not look at the faces of these young women and girls who are forced to be out in the street. Maybe we think this is what they want to do or they wouldn't be out there. Maybe it is easier to believe that it is an empowering choice they have than face the harsh reality of child sexual abuse, physical and mental abuse, and the pimps that prey on the young women and girls.
---this also shows that sextrafficking isnt only in foreign countries, that it happens in America and by Americans.
Wyndham Hotels to prevent child sex trafficking at their properties, after a sex trafficking ring selling girls as young as 14 was discovered in a Wyndham hotel in California. Now, another sex trafficking ring has been busted using Wyndham properties near Washington, DC. Will this latest scandal finally inspire the company finally do the right thing?
Virginia resident and MS-13 gang member Alonso Bruno Cornejo Ormeno was recently indicted for trafficking girls for sex at a Super 8 hotel -- a Wyndham property -- in Manassas, Virginia. At least one of the girls was 15 when she was sold, and Ormeno advertised her as a "high school girl" and "fresh out of the box." According to the indictment, Ormeno rented a room at the Super 8 where he sold sex acts with a number of girls and women for $50 each. He told an informant his business was booming, and his cell phone was ringing off the hook. Six or seven clients a day would stream in and out of the room, but no one at the hotel reported it.
This is the second recent case of gangs using a Wyndham hotel to run child sex trafficking rings. Two Wyndham hotels near San Diego were similarly used by the Crips gang, and at one property employees even helped facilitate the child sex trafficking.
---this is an article that proves that sex trafficking is occuring in America and it the pimps in this story were busted by police so easier to believe.
Katya was a foreign exchange university student. In the spring of 2004, her and her friend Lena were looking forward to their jobs that they had gotten for the summer in Virginia Beach, Va. After they arrived at the airport from their native country of Ukraine, they were happy that the were greeted by two men who spoke their russian language. The two men, Alex Maksimenko and Michael Aronov, told the girls that they would now be going to Detroit because their jobs were reassigned. There they would be waitresses and work on shaping up their English skills. The girls had no idea that they were about to get on a flight that would change their lives forever. Once they arrived at the hotel in detroit, they sat them down and took their passports and papers, said that they owe the men big time for taking them there and told them that they would be working in a strip club called "Cheetahs" and threw them the stripper outfits. Over the next year, the girls went through mental, physical, and sexual abuse and were forced to work the 12 hour shifts at the mens' club in Detroit. There are an estimated 17,000 women and girls who are forced into the sex industry. These womens and girls are only thought about as dollars and cents for this sex industry is all about big money. In 2005, the girls escaped and were taken to the FBI and ICE. The two men were arrested and are serving their time in Federal prison. Katya knows that the men are imprisoned, but she says that she will always live with fear.
---this story once again shows the occurance of sex trafficking on the United States.
Some of these [Moldavian] young women are actually tricked into paying their own travel expenses—typically around $3,000—as a down payment on what they expect to be bright, prosperous futures. …
The young women are typically kept in locked-down, gated villas in groups of 16 to 20.
Sometimes they are sold outright to other traffickers and sex rings, victims and experts say. These sex slaves earn no money, there is nothing voluntary about what they do and if they try to escape they are often beaten and sometimes killed.
Most of the girls on Santo Tomas would have sex with 20 to 30 men a day; they would do this seven days a week usually for weeks but sometimes for months before they were ''ready'' for the United States. If they refused, they would be beaten and sometimes killed.
---this is another scary story of sex trafficking in america.
there is all the info so far. later on i will be doing more in depth searching into my articles or even differents articles.
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