SPOTLIGHT CASE Human Trafficking Awareness Thread

[ShyViolet]

"Victims step forward to help bust St. Paul sex trafficking ring"

For two years a St. Paul family allegedly posted hundreds of online ads selling sex with several women, some as young as 15, who were coerced, threatened and assaulted into a life authorities described as “modern day human slavery.”

http://www.startribune.com/local/eas...1.html?refer=y

[dotr]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/20.../20760776.html
"OTTAWA -- She thought she’d be getting ready to go to a party at the home of a new Facebook friend.

Instead, a pair of 15-year-old girls plastered her with makeup and stripped her naked for pictures. Then, they told her she was becoming an escort, a 17-year-old girl told police"

[momtective]

Kim was abducted in Dallas at 19. Entrapped in sex slavery, she dug deep and devised a plan to eventually escape. She shares her story and gives warnings in her story.

http://www.kltv.com/story/22082423/h...n%252Bfacebook

Link to Eden movie trailer http://www.edenthefilm.com/index.html

[dotr]

Originally Posted by momtective

Kim was abducted in Dallas at 19. Entrapped in sex slavery, she dug deep and devised a plan to eventually escape. She shares her story and gives warnings in her story.

http://www.kltv.com/story/22082423/h...n%252Bfacebook

Link to Eden movie trailer http://www.edenthefilm.com/index.html

From your interesting link, thanks....


"College girls can actually be trafficked more than people think. Boys get trafficked, as well."

This type of crime is also more common that we think, Kim suggests and recommends being on-guard in new situations, with new people.


"When you meet anyone, whether it's a guy who's befriending you, or a girl who says, ‘Hey let's go party,' know your surroundings, know where you're at," she says.


If you are abducted she advises, "Try to get out but if you can't, remember your surroundings, where you were at. Remember if it was a rainy day. If you were blindfolded and can't see anything, listen. Pay attention to your other senses."

[dotr]

Facts and figures human trafficking 2012.Country by country, eye-opening.
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/192594.pdf

[imamaze]

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/loca...9bb2963f4.html
Elizabeth Smart speaks at human trafficking forum
Rescued kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart said May 1 she understands why some human trafficking victims don't run.
Smart said she "felt so dirty and so filthy" after she was raped by her captor, and she understands why someone wouldn't run "because of that alone."