The Making of a Girl

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[TRIGGER WARNING, especially the video]

Research shows that sex trafficking spikes on Super Bowl Sunday. But what exactly does sex trafficking in America look like?

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What You Can Do

- Help pass a Federal Bill to increase direct support services to young sex trafficking survivors and resources to address and combat sex trafficking. Women’s Funding

Comments

[nothingmuch]

I saw this thing on MSNBC about this... girls are kidnapped right off the streets in American neighborhoods, drugged/tied/beaten, taken to other states and prostituted, and when the parents report their teenage daughter missing, the police are like "she probably just ran away" and refuse to do anything about it.

This one guy in Toledo, OH tracked his kidnapped daughter down to a pimp's house, and called the police, and when the police took forever to show up, he finally went and tried to rescue his daughter himself. He got beaten up, his daughter escaped, and the police initially charged the dad with trespassing (later dropped).

[luminescnece]

That is horrifying and horrible.

[nothingmuch]

I'll never look at a Missing poster the same way again, that's for sure. :(

[luminescnece]

Obviously black or hispanic girls are 'troubled' and must have run away. /sarcasm