Before Abraham Lincoln was president, he argued his stand against slavery.
“We have in this nation on the element of domestic slavery,” Lincoln stated. “The Republican Party think it wrong—we think it is a moral, a social, and a political wrong.”
Lincoln was right and although he did help conquer some slavery, slavery still exists today.
Sex trafficking is our modern-day slavery. It generates over $32 billion annually worldwide. According to the US Department of state, about 600,000-800,000 people are trafficked into the United States for forced labor and/or commercial sexual exploitation.
The victims are forced to have sex through violence, threat of violence, or psychological manipulation. They don’t have a choice.
The problem is that these victims are the ones who are being prosecuted, instead of the clients who have claimed ownership of these men, women, and children. Linda Smith, the founder and director of Shared Hope International, an organization that exists to rescue and restore women and children in these crisis situations, put it this way.
“It’s complicated in that the actions of buyers are accepted as normal and the languages of all the cultures label the 14-year-old victimized child a ‘prostitute’ and worthy of little sympathy, much less justice,” Smith stated.
In other words, the innocent victims are being shunned by society and sent to jail, while the ones who should be prosecuted aren’t getting penalized at all, allowing them to continuously enslave innocent people.
Justice must be sought after. The first step is to bring awareness to the public. This is my step.
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Just because children don't really have a voice, they should, just because they can be manipulated to doing and saying things that they wouldn't normally do. It doesn't make it right. Children like all of us adapt to our environment, just like the children in Africa who are forced to become soldiers or die. They are offered life or death. We as humans, always fight for our lives. It is just human nature. It's not the child's fault. I mean come on adults take responsibility, why blame the children - Really your going to say it was their fault for something that you put in their minds/forced them to do and they feel icky, horrible, unloved, guilty, because of what happened to them and they blame themselves because you make them think that it is their fault for being pretty, or even just their... you make them believe it, and they do. Because they trust that what your telling them is the truth...
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