Modern Slavery

 
Human Trafficking isn’t something you only hear about in movies, or in 3rd world countries, it isn’t something that only affects certain groups or areas. It is everywhere. I live less than 2 hours away from the largest human trafficking ‘hub’ in the entire United States.

Don’t be fooled. Don’t be blind. And don’t be mislead. God gave us His Holy Spirit as our guide, He gave us boldness in His Power and supernatural strength and knowing. WE ARE GIVEN THESE THINGS FOR A REASON. WE DO NOT FEAR AS THE WORLD FEARS – FOR WE SERVE AN ALMIGHTY GOD – AND THROUGH OUR ACTIONS AND OUR BOLDNESS IN THE FACE OF EVIL CAN OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS BE SAVED.

ANYONE CAN HELP. THE FIRST STEP TO SOLVING A PROBLEM IS LEARNING ABOUT IT. I’VE DONE THE WORK FOR YOU…WHAT YOU ARE LED TO DO NEXT IS ON YOU.

1. 99% of victims are not rescued.
2. Approximately 2 to 4 million people are trafficked in and across borders each year.
3. Human trafficking is now a leading source of profits for organized crime, together with drugs and weapons, generating an estimated 9.5 billion dollars per year. – US Department of State: Trafficking in Persons Report, 2007
4. The overwhelming majority of those trafficked are women and children.
5. The average victim is forced to have sex up to 20 times a day.
6. The CIA calculates that profits from one trafficked woman alone average around $250,000 American dollars per year. – Trafficking in Persons: U.S. Policy and Issues for Congress, 2007
7. Children are abducted from rural areas and trafficked into a range of exploitive practices which include bonded labor, sexual exploitation, marriage, illicit adoptions, and begging.
8. Young girls, some as young as 12 years old, are forced to work in brothels, massage parlors, prostitution rings, strip clubs, or used to produce pornographic materials.
9. Children are recruited and trafficked to earn money by begging or selling goods.
10. Child beggars are sometimes maimed by their captors to generate sympathy and generosity from potential buyers. –
11. Most victims of sexual exploitation and modern slavery are under 18 years of age –
12. For every 75,000 victims, only 1 trafficker is convicted. –
13. 300,000 children in the U.S. are at risk every year for commercial sexual exploitation. – U .S. Department of Justice
14. An estimated 14,500 to 17,500 foreign nationals are trafficked into the United States each year. The number of U.S. citizens trafficked within the country is even higher, with an estimated 200,000 American children at risk for trafficking into the sex industry. – U.S Department of Justice Report to Congress from Attorney General John Ashcroft on U.S. Government Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons
15. An estimated 2.5 million children, the majority of them girls, are sexually exploited in the multibillion dollar commercial sex industry
    
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