Monday, February 10, 2014

BEYOND PICKET FENCES

   Trafficking of young women, girls, and boys for prostitution, pornography, pedophilia, and harvesting vital organs is now in all fifty states of the United States.  In every city and community across America, young women, girls, and boys are vulnerable to abduction by bounty hunters.
   Worldwide, human trafficking has more than twenty million victims for slave labor and sex slaves.
   As an industry, human trafficking is estimated to be more than $30 billion, surpassing the illegal sale of guns.
   In the United States, 300,000 Americans, under the age of 18, are lured into this commercial sex trade each year.
   Life expectancy for victims of human trafficking is from 3 to 7 years.  They die from drug overdoses, starvation, fatal diseases, infections, and murder.  They live their lives in shackles and chains. 
   Beyond picket fences, young women and children are prey to abduction by bounty hunters, gangs, and crime families.  They troll fast-food restaurants, convenience stores, movie theaters, shopping malls, churches, religious institutions, and sports arenas.
   Therefore, all of us should be alert.  If you see young women and children with fear on their faces, under-nourished and under-clothed, call the police.  They could be victims of human trafficking and they are running for their lives.  They will be scared. 
  Also, be watchful for cars, vans, and trucks overloaded with people at fast-food restaurants, convenience stores, or at Welcome Centers along interstate highways.  Be able to identify the vehicle and especially a license plate number.
   Human trafficking is a war against women and children, and this war is enlarging itself and consuming nations, a direct attack against freedom.

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