Human Trafficking

This is something that is so scaring and sad to think about.....I wish I could stop human trafficking in the blink of an eye. For those of you that don't know what human trafficking is,it is a modern-day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under the age of 18 years. People take innocent children and make them have sex with grown men numerous times a day.

Victims of sex trafficking can be women or men, girls or boys, but the majority are women and girls. There are a number of common patterns for luring victims into situations of sex trafficking, including:

-A promise of a good job in another country

-A false marriage proposal turned into a bondage situation

-Being sold into the sex trade by parents, husbands, boyfriends

-Being kidnapped by traffickers

Sex traffickers use a variety of methods to "condition" their victims including starvation, confinement, beatings, physical abuse, rape, gang rape, threats of violence to the victims and the victims' families, forced drug use and the threat of shaming their victims by revealing their activities to their family and their families' friends. Alot of the victims go through all of this for years and years. Some of them are drugged to much by accident and die.

-As many as 10 million people are victims of human trafficking.

No country is immune from human trafficking. Each year, an estimated 600,000-800,000 men, women, and children are trafficked across international borders, and this sicking number is growing. This figure is in addition to a far larger yet indeterminate number of people trafficked within countries.

I recently watched the movie Taken(good movie)and trafficking plays a big part in this movie...watch it....it will make you really think.

I have liked Natalie Grant for the past 5 years....she is the one that I heard about trafficking through. She has set up an orginization for victims of trafficking.....you can go and donate or just read some of the victims stories at http://www.thehomefoundation.net/

Even if you can't donate(because I know I can't) you can pray....think about what if it was your kid that this happened to. It's so scary!