No More Sex Trafficking - 1689 Words

No More Sex Trafficking Human sex trafficking is an illegal trade that is steadily increasing in the United States. In particular, human trafficking starts with young children. Around the world today, 5.5 million children are victims of trafficking (Bales, Free the Slave). Young children become victims to sex trafficking for many different reasons. How they enter into the system is one issue, but who is there to help them get out is a bigger issue? Children are forced into the sex trafficking system multiple times a day, because traffickers stalk and track down vulnerable children. All of the outlets of socializing for young people are exactly the outlets that traffickers search to capture their victims and force them into the sex†¦show more content†¦After they are released, their lives are already ruined with dreadful memories, abused bodies, judicial misdemeanors, and worst. Through strict and safer laws, education, and awareness, human trafficking in the United States ca n be dramatically reduced to help end this illegal form of modern day slavery. A research study titled, Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking in the United States, indicates how youths constitute the most vulnerable group in the United States for becoming victims of sex trafficking and that most women in prostitution actually entered as minors. The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act (VTVPA) defines sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age. Child abuse is a growing problem in the United States. American children are vulnerable to DMST. DMST is the commercial abuse of children through buying, selling, or trading their sexual services. Forms of DMST include prostitution, pornography, stripping, escort services, and other sexual services (Kotria). Sex trafficking can be reduced or even saved by government intervention. The government has a low tolerance of human trafficking, while according to UNICEF, human trafficking is the third largest international crime industry (2015). Also, human trafficking generates an estimated $150 billion in yearly profits. The