Saturday, 23 October 2010 23:59 by
O.A.T.H.Foster care children are at a greater risk for sex trafficking for a number of reasons. First, children in foster care often come from backgrounds of abuse and neglect, and some of them may find sexual or physical abuse has been the norm in their life.
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Populations of foster children also often overlap with populations of runaway and homeless youth, who because of their lack of resources are vulnerable to street pimps. And in many parts of the country, the foster care system is so broken that kids can slip through the cracks without ever being noticed. When a child with no family, no support, and no place to sleep is offered all those things by a pimp, it often sounds like a dream come true.
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One FBI agent in Florida recently estimated the number at 70%. Some shelter directors believe eight out of ten trafficked kids come from foster care.
Read more at: End Human Trafficking | change.org
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Sunday, 5 September 2010 12:50 by
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One phone call from one trucker... 9 lives saved... 31 offenders convicted... 13 state trafficking ring shut down... all from one call. One person, One call.
One truck driver who noticed two young girls working at a truck stop made the 911 call to police. The 14 and 15 year old Ohio girls were in fact kidnap victims of human trafficking. These two girls were saved and returned to their families... then police found 7 other minor children being prostituted by the traffickers and in all 31 offenders were convicted in the 13 state prostitution ring. One person can make a difference!
Truckers Against Trafficking was started right here in Tulsa Oklahoma by one of our partner organizations: Chapter 61 Ministries. Please watch their video about the growing problem below...
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Prostitution. Pornography. Survival sex. Commercial sexual exploitation is more than just young people being sexually abused by adults. Perpetrators victimize young people by paying, or promising to pay, money, goods or services to a youth-or a pimp-in exchange for sexual acts or entertainment.
The impact of commercial sexual exploitation on young victims is often devastating. Instead of attending school, they face violence, disease and jail. Before they are even old enough to vote, they lose their dignity and their freedom. They suffer emotional trauma that may never go away.
Helping young people escape from exploitation should be a top priority of communities and youth workers everywhere.
What are the real numbers?... How can you identify them?... Read more
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OKLAHOMA CITY - OKC PD arrest two people for allegedly trying to use their children for prostitution at truck stop! A truck driver called the police after he said a 16 yr old girl knocked on his window and asked if he wanted company.
Officers stopped an SUV in the parking lot of the Petro Truck Stop at 20 Martin Luther King Ave. and found the pair with six children ranging from 9 to 17 yrs old.
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Oklahoma District Attorney David Prater released the couple saying it was a "misunderstanding". Often police and prosecutors are challenged with the difficult task of finding the evidence needed or getting the victims to cooperate with a collaborating testimony that can be used in court. When victims fear for their safety, they seldom come forward with the truth during initial interviews with law enforcement.
Read more about the case here and here...
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"Human trafficking has become big business – generating billions of dollars each year through the entrapment and exploitation of millions," said U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on May 3rd, at the National Conference on Human Trafficking. "Almost every country in the world is affected, either as a source or destination for victims." OATH Executive Director, Mark Elam was on hand for the conference in Washington DC with special invitation from the State Department and Bureau of Justice Affairs.
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According to the U.S. Department of Justice, human trafficking is the fastest-growing crime in the world, and is second in financial scope only to the sale of illegal drugs. It occurs in every state here in the U.S. and every country in the world. It is a global problem, and as such, it demands a global solution. The girl pictured to the right was purchased at the age of 10 and forced to work as a domestic servant up to 20 hours per day. She is seen here in the space they made for her to sleep in the garage. |
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Read the complete article about this victim at VOANews.com
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| Women and children sold for sex and labor and some of them end up dead. A former Oklahoma foster child talks about how she got caught up is sex trafficking, right here in Oklahoma. An Oklahoma native says she was she was smuggled to Las Vegas and sold for sex in California, Florida, North Carolina, New York and many other states across the country. Recently, advocates from Oklahomans Against Trafficking Humans (OATH) met for a conference in Norman, Oklahoma to better educate parents, law enforcement and service providers and advocates about the issue of human trafficking. |
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Read the complete article and watch the video at
Fox23.com
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Police report that at least 1 in 5 girls being prostituted at our truck stops are under the age of 18. Trapped in a lifestyle of servicing men that are often old enough to be their grandfather in this horrific form of "modern slavery".
Watch the video at KOKH-TV Oklahoma City to hear from one of Oklahoma's top law enforcement officers from the OKCPD Predator Unit describe the problem that we have here in Oklahoma.
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Monday, 8 February 2010 18:00 by
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The press is reporting that a group of 10 Baptist missionaries from two churches in Idaho are Human Traffickers that were arrested and in the process of being charged with exploiting young orphaned Haitian children. Is it true that these church members are real traffickers under the guise of a church?... Or were they simply unwise in their actions and intentions to meet their own ideological needs of rescuing these children regardless of proper protocol? What do you think?
It was said to me earlier: "we should not understate the devastating significance of such ideological malfeasance that exposes underlying systemic issues of racism, lingering colonialism, benevolent benefactor, and other tragic "just do it" actions that completely disrespect and dehumanize third world people... proselytizing ends ever justifies the means of removing children from their families".
See article and tell us what you think: http://beta.thehindu.com/news/international/article101323.ece
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