Human Trafficking

[skramamme]

Sex slavery and human trafficking is every bodies business. And it's not just happening in Eastern Europe or South East Asia either- it's a huge market in "developed" countries like the US too.
"Both M.S. and Asia said they were arrested and thrown into jail, and that the police treated them like criminals, even when they knew they were minors.

Comments

[zerogrl]

it's always shocking when i find out people don't realize sexual slavery is all over the US where i live. it's just everywhere. they seem to think it's some foreign issue. no one ever talks about it. i want to cry just thinking about it.

[skramamme]

yeah, it's apparently a really big problem in the States now, Ohio and portland are well known as trafficking hubs.
I mean, from a purely financial standpoint it makes sense- there's huge money to be made from slavery with virtually no risks. There is no effort to prosecute a human trafficker the way there is with a drug trafficker, which is really fucking disgusting when you think about it.
*sigh*
I go through stages where I'm signing petitions and reading up on these things but I burn out pretty quickly, it's so fucking depressing.