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| Message: | Child Trafficking Reply Quote More Edit PostDelete Post -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ban IPReport Spam -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Map above was created by Victims of Abuse/Traffic.. Victims of [BT,FCU,COG,FFYI,TGRB,GBW,RFG,RTFP,DOTS,CBOA,JLC,KST,BLB,MBL,LLCD, etc..] The Green Dots represents Pickup/Drop Off Points. The Yellow Lines Represents Route of Transport. (Trains,Boats,Ships,Cruise Liners,Yachts,Semi,Trucks,Cars,Vans,Bus,RV) The Dots are/were active locations where children have or were held.. This is not a complete map., Meaning these are Known Locations only. Where are they Taken: In No Order as follows: 01) Canada 02) United States 03) Costa Rica 04) Colombia 05) United Kingdom 06) Netherlands 07) Germany 08) Switzerland 09) Norway 10) Bosnia & Herzegovina 11) Romania 12) Moldova 13) Ukraine 14) Georgia 15) Turkey 16) Greece 17) Cote d'lvoire 18) Russia 19) Uzbekistan 20) Kazakhstan 21) Lebanon 22) Jordan 23) Saudi Arabia 24) Kuwait 25) Bahrain 26) Qatar 27) United Arab Emirates 28) Pakistan 29) Nepal 30) Bangladesh 31) Sri Lanka 32) India 33) Burma 34) Cambodia 35) Thailand 36) Vietnam 37) Laos 38) Malaysia 39) Brunei 40) Indonesia 41) Hong Kong 42) Singapore 43) Philippines 44) China 45) Taiwan 46) South Korea 47) Japan 48) Northern Mariana Islands 49) Australia 50) Kenya 51) South Africa 52) Nauru 53) Kiribati 54) New Zealand 55) Brazil Known Cases: Short Examples.. (Sorce: Interpol) In Atlanta, US - Over 1,000 Children bought and sold. In Minnestoa, US - 429 Children bought and sold. Child Trafficking - 300,000 children in the U.S. are at risk every year for commercial sexual exploitation. -U.S. Department of Justice - 600,000 800,000 people are bought and sold across international borders each year; 50% are children, most are female. The majority of these victims are forced into the commercial sex trade. U.S. Department of State, 2004, Trafficking in Persons Report, Washington, D.C. - 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 - An estimated 2.5 million children, the majority of them girls, are sexually exploited in the multibillion dollar commercial sex industry UNICEF - Investigators and researchers estimate the average [Oops!] in the U.S. can make more than $200,000 a year off one young girl. NBC Report by Teri Williams - There are at least 30 million victims of modern day slavery in the world today (US Trafficking in Persons Report). - Each year it is estimated that there are 1 million new victims of human trafficking (The US Department of State). - Estimates as high as 80% of trafficking victims are women and over - 50% in slavery are children (US Government). - Human Trafficking generates approximately $9.5 billion each year. It is second only to drug trafficking in international crime (US Trafficking in Persons Report). - Experts say that at any given time, some 2.5 million people are being trafficked - The USA is the number one country of destination for trafficked victims. The land of the free and the brave has become the receiving country for sex-slaves and forced manual workers. Run-away or kidnapped children are also sold and exploited within our borders and Internet child pornography or solicitation is thriving. - A child goes missing every 40 seconds in the USA. That is more than 2,000 a day and more than 800,000 every year. Another estimated 500,000 disappear without being reported. For most, these bodies are never found. What happens to them? (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children) - Rising tide of human trafficking by Americans against other Americans - between 1.3 and 2.8 million runaways and homeless youths living on America's streets are one of the most at risk populations for exploitation. (PR Newswire) - 1 in 7 teenagers in the USA run away from home. Living on the streets, one out of every three teens will be lured into prostitution within 48 hours of leaving home. And the longer they are gone, the more likely they are to engage in "survival sex." After three months away from home, 90 percent of children will turn to sex. (National Incidence Studies of Missing, Runaway and Throwaway Children) October 26, 2009 "52 Children Recovered, 60 Alleged Child Pimps Arrested in Crackdown" (CNN) -- Law enforcement authorities have recovered 52 children and arrested 60 pimps allegedly involved in child prostitution, the FBI announced Monday. October 23, 2009 "Victims of Human Trafficking Speak Out" A father of two from Nepal who thought he was going to America wound up in Iraq, forced to work at a U.S. airbase. A 14-year-old Ugandan girl kidnapped by rebels spent nearly eight years in captivity as a sex slave and human shield. And a young Venezuelan woman lured to New York by the man she loved wound up in a brothel his family was running. October 22, 2009 "Child Sex Trafficking Victim Tells Her Story" TULSA, OK -- Children trafficked as sex slaves is the world's second largest criminal enterprise, according to the state department. Social workers and law enforcement have been meeting in Tulsa to look for solutions. Federal Indictment on Trafficking KANSAS CITY, MOMatt J. Whitworth, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Olathe, Kan., man was sentenced in federal court today for the attempted commercial sex trafficking of a child. October 4, 2009 Joplin, MO "Teens Become Prey in Charlotte Sex Trade" In his east Charlotte apartment less than a mile from Windsor Park Elementary, Jorge Flores Rojas created a religious shrine to a mystical figure known as the patron saint of death, who is said to protect pimps and other criminals. "Students March Against Child Trafficking" A 16-year-old girl befriended another girl in her class. The 16-year-old was invited to her new friend's house for a sleep over. When she arrived, she had a glass water. However, the teenager didn't know that her life would take a terrifying turn after that. Septemer 21, 2009 "Retired Terror Hunters Hope to End Child Sex Slavery" U.S. Navy SEAL Capt. Larry Lasky spent a lifetime hunting bad guys. By bad, I mean really bad. As in terrorists. And by hunting I mean literally, as in commanding SEAL teams on special missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. September 16, 2009 "Some 750,000 Pedophiles Prowling Internet: UN" Some 750,000 sexual predators are constantly prowling the Internet in a bid to gain contact with children, a United Nations report warned on Wednesday. "P.A. Man Gets 8 Years for Sex with Russian Orphans" PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A wealthy Russian-American car exporter was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday for procuring girls from a Russian orphanage to have sex with them. September 9, 2009 "Stop Child Trafficking Now: Get Involved" America rejoiced at the news that Jaycee Lee Dugard was found alive after she was missing for 18 years. During that time, she was being held captive as a sex slave in filthy conditions in the back yard of her captor's home. September 4, 2009 "Sex Trafficking: It is Happening in Our Backyard" A story in last weeks news focused on the mysterious reappearance of Jaycee Lee Dugard, a 29-year-old woman who had been kidnapped 18 years earliersnatched into a car while walking home from school. As the details of her imprisonment emerge, the horror is inescapable. Hidden in a filthy backyard complex, she was forced to serve as a sex slave for her jailereven bearing him two children during her captivity. Can she ever live a normal life? What does the future hold for her childrenyoung teenage girls who rarely left the backyard in which they were born? Will her captor receive the punishment he so soundly deserves? August 31, 2009 "U.S. Pedophiles Nabbed in Cambodia Sex-Tourist Sting" LOS ANGELES EXCLUSIVE: Three Americans "tourists" are on their way home from Cambodia Monday after being arrested in an on-going federal sex tourism investigation. August 28, 2009 "Sex Ring Suspect Arrest Reminder Of The Crime" MUSKOGEE, OK -- Muskogee Police tell The News On 6, 35-year-old Ronnie Presley has been arrested in Muskogee. Earlier this week, federal prosecutors charged Presley in one of the country's largest human sex-trafficking cases. Tulsa-area advocates say the arrest of sex ring suspect Ronnie Presley is a reminder that child sex trafficking is real. And, it's happening in our backyard. August 25, 2009 "6 Arrested in Houston Prostitution Case" HOUSTON, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Six people have been charged in Houston with sex trafficking of women and children, U.S. and local police authorities said Tuesday. August 14, 2009 "Prostitution bust in Midtown" NEW YORK (WABC) -- Walking down this commercial block, you would almost miss the small doorway on West 38th Street. But city officials say there was plenty going on inside the building. On Thursday afternoon, when city officials came here to shut down what they thought was an illegal hotel operation on the fifth floor, they were surprised to find something very different just one floor below. "They saw just a location that was arranged with rooms for sex, but there was no actual activity going on at the time," Shari Hyman of the Mayor's Office of Special Enforcement said. August 13, 2009 "Police Say Orange County Teen Was Kidnapped, Sold as Sex Slave" A 15-year-old Orange County girl who ran away from home after an argument with her mother in 2007 was kidnapped and held captive in an underground world of drugs and forced prostitution. August 8, 2009 "Eight charged in N.J.-based sex-trafficking ring" TRENTON -- From Newark to Atlantic City, he preyed on women at bus stations, train stations and night clubs. He flashed his cash, proposed dinner dates in New York City and promised them a taste of the "good life." August 3, 2009 "Police Break up Human Trafficking Ring" GREENWICH, Conn. (NBC) - Connecticut Police broke up a suspected human trafficking operation while responding to a fight at a shopping center Sunday morning. July 14, 2009 Human Trafficking Happening In Your Backyard Back in June of this year, Pitt county sheriff's deputies raided a home off of B's Barbecue Road. Inside they found what they called an illegal operation. July11, 2009 Human trafficking growing concern in county VISTA The recent arrest of two dozen Chinese nationals in a prostitution sting at nine locations in Vista surprised many, but not those familiar with the burgeoning human-trafficking trade. June 16, 2009 "Unmasking child sex trafficking in Las Vegas" Across the nation, 100,000 children - girls as young as 12 years old - are sold into a life of prostitution every year. "Recession Boosts Global Human Trafficking" The global financial crisis has increased the worldwide trade in trafficked persons, says a State Department report released Tuesday. February 23, 2009 "CNN Crime: FBI Recovers 48 Juveniles in Prostitution Raid" Law enforcement officials arrested more than 500 people, and took custody of 48 juveniles in a coordinated 29-city weekend sweep aimed at combating child prostitution, the FBI announced Monday. January 5, 2009 "American Public Media: Laws Do Little to Curtail Sex Slavery" Of all the slaves in the world, about 4% are sex slaves. Yet, they account for an estimated 40% of all slave-trade profits. Kai Ryssdal takes a look at the problem with Siddarth Kara, who has written a book about the business of sex trafficking. | ||||