Lured Off the Streets, a Look at How Young Women Become Sex Trafficking Victims (ABC)

[inanna]

Jan 23, 2015, 12:55 PM ET

Thousands of young American women who slip into the seedy world of prostitution, advocates say, do so through no choice of their own. It begins with a pimp befriending them, giving them a place to stay, and then turning them out on the streets or in online ads to sell their bodies.

Childhoods marred by broken homes, abuse, drug use and a desperate need for love link their stories, and often their pasts deeply warp their sense of right and wrong.

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In his upcoming PBS documentary, “A Path Appears,” New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof says it’s time we acknowledge sex trafficking as an American problem, and that we take a hard look at prostitution and the notion of choice, especially by women.

“It's basically seen as a public nuisance issue, rather than as a human rights problem,” Kristof said. “And the person the police and prosecutors go after is the victim, is the 16-year-old girl, rather than the perpetrator, the pimp, or the customer.”

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Link: http://abcnews.go.com/US/lured-off-streets-young-women-sex-trafficking-victims/story?id=28428792

[Skittles]

1. while they are at it

try to find out why so many men want to fuck children

[JDPriestly]

2. I'm so pleased to learn that ABC News is covering this story. Thanks.

I was blessed with wonderful parents and a happy home in which I was taught to care for those who were not as lucky as I was.

So I worked for a homeless shelter. And it was there that I learned that so many homeless women were abused as children. Most I dealt with reported abuse in their early teens. This is a national problem.

There but for the grace of God . . . . or fate or whatever you think it is that protects some of us from the horrors that some others of us have to face.

As a society, we can do something about this I feel certain.