I keep hearing about it on a local level through word of mouth and social media. I know it's a real thing, but I have a feeling a lot of it is fear mongering. I mean I know people who are hyper vigilant about mysterious zip ties showing up on their cars. It's like the current boogyman. "Keep an eye on your kids! Human Sex Trafficking!" How wide spread is it?
An ancient, global phenomenon with endless literature available on the subject, and you're asking someone at Wordforge to explain it to you.
I know it happens, but I am not sure how in danger kids are in general of that sort of thing. However, given the availability of slave women I think it would be a lot easier to have bred a crop of sex slaves given the industry would have been around forever. I would imagine the girls, or boys, who are taken are not the ones who would be missed or tracked, and there are probably plenty of them. However, kidnapping for profit or due to domestic issues may is a real problem for some people.
The victims of sex trafficking are desperately poor women and girls from developing countries. Sex traffickers aren't kidnapping people off the streets of affluent suburbs in North America. The zip tie thing is hooey. It's just another moral panic, not unlike the original fears of "white slavery."
It's all of a sudden a local phenomenon around here, but I'm not hearing about some kind of systemic sex trafficking stories in the media except for debunked shit like Pizzagate, zip lock ties on windshield wipers, and Amazon trucks delivering slaves.
White people warning other white people to watch out for their kids because of zip ties and Amazon vans, but nothing on the news about kids being kidnapped out of their front yards and then turned out on the mean streets of Raleigh.
Yes. While there are runaways and such who are coerced or forced into prostitution, the overwhelming majority of trafficking victims are from other countries.
I guess there is a roaming sex trafficking thing at truck stops. All joking aside I have been propositioned on occasion down here in florida. I do not think they kidnap kids, rather the kidss go to them because of drugs or they were already poor and unwanted. In america the "force" that causes a person to be enslaved to the sex trade is economic and if we gave people room, food, basic medical care and licensed drugs and prostitution we would give those people the power to save up and make a better life for themselves if they wanted to.
Kids snatched out of their front yards are generally [and I use that judiciously] are people that they know (teachers, Funny Uncle Bob), etc. The media hysteria only clouds the real issue of desperate women from developing countries who end up in shipping containers and in Saudi Arabia or the United of [What shipping container? We don't see no shipping container unless they end up dead. Hey, buddy, thanks for the Christmas gift!] States.
There is the reality the local sexual predator uses those schemes to gain access to people's private home areas. That should be covered by knowing your neighborhood and who is in your local environment. Yes there is a risk, but the reality is we have to be aware of dangers.
since it's a pretty big deal down the road from me in Atlanta (and thus here in Augusta since I-20 is a big pipeline from drugs, prostitution, etc) here is a link that provides facts from people trying to help victims of this growing problem. 85 percent of the victims are home-grown BTW - it's al in the link. http://covenanthousega.org/HumanTrafficking-282
When I was traveling in Malaysia, it was pretty widespread there. Couldn't go a day without someone asking if I wanted a girl, from the hotel employees, cab drivers, random people coming up to you on the street. It was pretty fucked up, I'd find business cards, pamphlets, flyers in my hotel room, slipped under the door or placed on the nightstand, desk, etc. in the hotel room. On one of the days there, we had a day that was more or less free, so along with buddy of mine, we decided to just sight see. We out walking to grab lunch or something. We were walking past a building that looked it was an apartment building, 4-5 floors. We saw a girl climb out a window, and try to reach a balcony. She wound up slipping and fell 3 floors to the the ground and landed on a concrete pad, the sound she made was sort of a thud with a slapping sound. Two guys came out, picked her up, carried her out to the street, stopped a cab and tossed her in. The whole time they were yelling at her and smacking her in the face, punching her on her body. She left pretty decent sized puddle of blood on the pad, and a trail along the ground where they carried to the cab. One guy got in the cab with her, the other one got on a cell phone and was yelling about something. The guys saw us, but pretty much ignored us aside from yelling at us two, three times. She was obviously kept against her will, and we were positive she was a sex slave.
They aren't my friends. Just people I know. My friends are a different flavor of bat shit crazy. So I guess this is something that's only happening around my neck of the woods?
My suspicion is that it's all fear mongering (as I said in the OP), so no. Just curious if anybody else had noticed this where they live.
Heard on the radio today that Facebook admitted there was a problem with their algorithm causing it to over share these stories.
