Advocates hope to rescue underage Super Bowl sex slaves

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Volunteers are hoping to rescue young prostitutes brought to South Florida to ply their trade during the Super Bowl.

Two dozen volunteers from around the country gathered inside a Miami conference room earlier this week to prepare for the Super Bowl.

They're not here for the game, though. They will spend several days fanning out through the city to rescue underage girls who have been trafficked to South Florida as sex workers.

``The Super Bowl is obviously a really big deal for prostitution,'' Sandy Skelaney, a program manager at Kristi House, a program for sexually abused children, told the group.

``We have a bunch of girls being brought down by pimps.''
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The girls the group encounters are streetwise, distrustful, hardened and fearful of strangers -- who can get them beaten if the girl's pimp feels threatened.

Some girls view their pimps as family: someone who fed them, clothed them, loved them when no one else would.

``Nobody is saying, `Thank goodness you came and saved me,' '' Novicki said. But on a good day, a girl may take the group's card and hang onto it. Some time later, she said -- maybe after a beating or a night of particularly rough sex -- a girl may find the card and use it.

BILLIONS IN REVENUE

The National Center estimates there are between 100,000 and 150,000 underaged sex workers who generate billions of dollars in revenue for their pimps. The girls can travel around the country in ``circuits.''

In May, DCF began identifying through the agency's hotline children who fell victim to human trafficking. To date, they have recovered almost 85 children -- the largest number, 17, last month, said DCF spokesman Joe Follick.

Shared Hope International, a research and rescue group, reported in May 2009 that during a five-year period of servitude, an underaged prostitute might be ``raped'' by 6,000 men -- assuming a five-night-a-week schedule.

And if the everyday job description of a child prostitute is bad enough, times of ``peak'' demand, such as a sporting event, are particularly disturbing.

``Children exploited through prostitution typically are given a quota by their trafficker/pimp of 10-15 buyers per night,'' the Shared Hope report says, adding, ``though some service providers report girls having been sold to as many as 45 buyers in a night at peak demand times, such as a sporting event or convention.''
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24 - the number of people trying to help.

Kind of puts the Super Bowl in another perspective. Congress isn't worrying about this or child trafficking. They think it's a myth like global warming.

NCLB is way too late and not aimed in the right direction. I don't know who will win the Super Bowl, but I know who has already lost.

[PCIntern]

1. Revolting beyond words...

thus the righteous ending of the film "Taxi Driver".

[AllentownJake]

2. Really isn't the Super Bowl's fault

Any major event in a city whether it be the Super Bowl or a political convention will generate an increase in this activity. When you have visitors looking to "party" you will have a spike in prostitution. I'm pretty sure if research was done, you'd have found that the President's own inauguration increased prostitution activity in D.C.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. actually, GOP conventions have far higher rates than Dems.

ON a related note, do you recall the Moral majority trying to force hotels and motels (near their conventions) to stop showing pay per view XXX films? They were reacting to a study that showed far higher rates of use in conjunction with conservative religious conventions, over any other convention or meeting.

[AllentownJake]

4. Well there is a more 50-50 thing going on at democratic party events

Actually, men generally are outnumbered by women at party events, so I think that is a factor and it has been my experience, women enjoy sex as much as men do.

As for the evangelicals, generally speaking, porn and strip clubs do better in conservative communities than liberal ones.

I also always wonder if conservatives buy more porn because they have to hide it and throw it away to risk being discovered by other conservatives.

A liberal will find porn and say get a girlfriend/boyfriend. A conservative will have a prayer meeting.