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Originally posted by Dutty_Rag
I will get the stats I was reading yesterday for you -
This IS a matter of rich and poor. Of course it can happen anywhere. But statistically, it's poor, white families with an average income less than $10,000 per year. Someone mentioned immigrant communities - in fact these have one of the lowest incidences in the continental USA - although - where abuse happens outside the families - in southern states, it is statistically a white abuser praying on a vulnerable child who IS in this case often from an first generation immigrant family.
I don't mean the state should not intervene in terms of the cops coming over and sorting a case out.
I mean that this isn't something the state should be over-legislating for. Ridiculous laws requiring adults to go through exhaustive checks before working with children, people with certain attributes being barred from adopting children etc -
Who's more likely to notice and be able to intervene in a case of abuse - a neighbour? Or someone at the town hall or in the federal government or even law enforcement who has never met the family in question.
Law enforcement may be the right people to rectify a situation, but they are seldom the first responders and even rarer the people to detect such crimes.
This starts in the community and we should be educating the community to be more responsible. In a tight community where people communicate and interact, people don't feel like they can get away with it.
Stats to follow soon.
85% to 90% of the 876,213 persons reported missing to America’s law enforcement agencies in 2000 were juveniles (persons under 18 years of age). That means that 2,100 times per day parents or primary care givers felt the disappearance was serious enough to call law enforcement.
152,265 of the persons reported missing in 2000 were categorized as either endangered or involuntary.
The number of missing persons reported to law enforcement has increased from 154, 341 in 1982 to 876,213 in 2000. That is an increase of 468%.
According to the United States Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Juvenile Justice Bulletin, June 2000
Kidnapping makes up less than 2 percent of all violent crimes against juveniles reported to police.
Based on the identity of the perpetrator, there are three distinct types of kidnapping: kidnapping by a relative of the victim or "family kidnapping" (49 percent), kidnapping by an acquaintance of the victim or "acquaintance kidnapping" (27 percent), and kidnapping by a stranger to the victim or "stranger kidnapping" (24 percent).
Family kidnapping is committed primarily by parents, involves a larger percentage of female perpetrators (43 percent) than other types of kidnapping offenses, occurs more frequently to children under 6, equally victimizes juveniles of both sexes, and most often originates in the home.
Acquaintance kidnapping has features that suggest it should not be lumped with stranger kidnapping into the single category of non-family kidnapping, as has been done in the past.
Acquaintance kidnapping involves a comparatively high percentage of juvenile perpetrators, has the largest percentage of female and teenage victims, is more often associated with other crimes (especially sexual and physical assault), occurs at homes and residences, and has the highest percentage of injured victims.
Stranger kidnapping victimizes more females than males, occurs primarily at outdoor locations, victimizes both teenagers and school-age children, is associated with sexual assaults in the case of girl victims and robberies in the case of boy victims (although not exclusively so), and is the type of kidnapping most likely to involve the use of a firearm.
Originally posted by poet1b
I find these numbers of hundreds of thousands of teenagers in sexual slavery to be hard to believe.
Sex Trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person forced to perform such an act is under the age of 18 years.
-An estimated $9.5 billion is generated in annual revenue from all trafficking activities, with at least $4 billion attributed to the worldwide brothel industry. (Ibid.)
-An estimated 2 million children, the majority of them girls, are sexually exploited in the multibillion dollar commercial sex industry. (UNICEF)
-An estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked each year. (UNICEF)
-Around the world between 50 and 60 percent of the children who are trafficked into sexual slavery are under age 16.
-Human trafficking is the second-largest organized crime in the world.
-25 percent of all child sex tourists around the world are U.S. citizens.
-The largest number of people trafficked into the United States come from East Asia and the Pacific (5,000 to 7,000 victims). The next highest numbers come from Latin America and from Europe and Eurasia, with between 3,500 and 5,500 victims from each. (U.S. Departments of Justice, Health & Human Services, State, Labor, Homeland Security, Agriculture, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. 2004. Assessment of U.S. Government Activities to Combat Trafficking in Persons. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice.)
www.oprah.com...
www.ncmec.org...
What Are the Trends in Prostitution in the United States?
Many child victims of prostitution are only 11 or 12 years old, and some are as young as 9.12 The average age at which they enter prostitution is reported as 14, and the median age of involved youth is 15.5 years.13 These children come from inner cities, suburbs, and small towns, and there appears to be an increase in the recruitment of middle-class youth from schools and shopping malls in the suburbs.14 The vast majority of youth involved in prostitution are girls,15 although some service providers see an increase in the number of boys. Some attribute this to a greater willingness by boys to disclose their sexual activities.16 Larger cities are more likely to have a higher proportion of boys involved in prostitution; however, service providers in smaller cities report seeing an increase in prostitution activities.17 "Prostitution is a seasonal problem. It is most prevalent during the warmer months and in cities with warmer climates. During the peak seasons for prostitution in the larger cities throughout the United States, there can be as many as 500 prostitutes on the streets. At least 25-30 percent of those prostitutes are children younger than 18."(18)
Worldwide:
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Statistics
Although it is nearly impossible to provide accurate statistics about the number of children involved in prostitution, the examples below provide an overview of the problem8
Cambodia: As of 1995 one survey found minors from 13 to 17 years of age comprised about 31 percent of sex workers.9
China: As of 1994 the Peking People's Daily reported more than 10,000 women and children were abducted and sold each year in Sichaun alone.10
Costa Rica: The capital city of San Jose is home to more than 2,000 child prostitutes. Across the country, children are regularly sold to foreign pedophiles as part of sex-tour "packages."11
India: In 1995, 20 percent of Bombay's brothel population was composed of girls who were younger than 18, at least half of whom were human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive.12
Sri Lanka: 100,000 children between the ages of 6 and 14 are kept in brothels and an additional 5,000 children between 10 and 18 are working in tourist areas.13
Taiwan: Estimates indicate the number of children in the sex industry to be around 100,000.14
I don't doubt that such operations exist,
Originally posted by DimensionalDetective
reply to post by rapinbatsisaltherage
Heh, I think you may have mis-read what you quoted there.
I said I DON'T doubt that such operations exist, not that I doubted they existed.
I will say that the sheer numbers are a bit jaw-dropping to me though. This is huge IMO.
Originally posted by isa75
Shouldn't we as human beings have more morals than wanting to have sex with little kids. Where does that come from. What is wrong with society, that some people in society actually do this. We have a group of people who get the kids to provide a service to adult people who know better than to do this. I know money is a big factor, Why is there even a market for this? It just makes me sick.
Originally posted by DimensionalDetective
Some excellent commentary here people. Looks like I may have to delve deeper into this one.
So WHY is this being ignored by the MSM here? That in itself makes me alarmed. It appears there is a conspiracy of silence and UNDERreporting of this....My question is WHY?
Originally posted by Bnmssnit
reply to post by DimensionalDetective
Ive always felt like this is what happened in the Natalie Holloway case.