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Child Trafficking in U.S and Canada
Child trafficking is slavery that is happening across Canada, the United States, and around the world. Its victims are typically impoverished women or youth desperate for help. Perpetrators offer shelter and drugs, and soon the dependent victim is forced into servitude, usually in the sex trade. Sister Lesley Sacouman has been part of the Holy Names House of Peace in downtown Winnipeg, providing support for women in transition, immigrants and refugees. She is also a co-founder of Rossbrook House, a drop-in centre providing a safe haven for inner city youth since 1976. All of those women and children are targets for human traffickers.“Every trafficked person is your child, your sister, your grandchild, son or niece. There is no one here who wouldn’t do anything to get their child out of a slave-like situation.”
Child trafficking is an international business worth billions of dollars because demand is high, Sister Sacouman said.
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“If no one wanted to buy a child, nobody would be selling children," Sacouman said. "There are a lot of people involved in this: travel agents, businessmen, lawyers, doctors, lawmakers. Trafficking needs this network to function.”
Sister Sacouman said over the past 10 years awareness of human trafficking has been growing. “It is talked about in more groups, and by more politicians and lawmakers," she said. "There is the fear that we may become desensitized the more we hear about it and we cannot let that happen. Read more.
More than 600,000 children, teens, men and women are trafficked annually across international borders worldwide for sexual exploitation or forced labor. Some organizations estimate that about 20,000 of those victims are brought into the United States and that more than 100,000 American children are at high risk of trafficking within its borders. (ohio.com)
Trafficking in children is a global problem affecting large numbers of children. Some estimates have as many as 1.2 million children being trafficked every year. There is a demand for trafficked children as cheap labour or for sexual exploitation. Children and their families are often unaware of the dangers of trafficking, believing that better employment and lives lie in other countries.
Child trafficking is lucrative and linked with criminal activity and corruption. It is often hidden and hard to address. Trafficking always violates the child’s right to grow up in a family environment. In addition, children who have been trafficked face a range of dangers, including violence and sexual abuse. Trafficked children are even arrested and detained as illegal aliens. (source: unicef.org)
GirlTalk Guests: Sean Wrench is the founder of Forsaken Generation in NY state. Forsaken Generation collaborates with local organizations and shelters across the U.S to create solutions, increase awareness, raise financial support and build a better future for the nation’s homeless youth. Naomi Baker is the founder of Canada Fights Human Trafficking. Their united desire is to bring freedom to victims, awareness to fellow Canadians and fear to traffickers, perpetrators and pedophiles.
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This article and others provide some staggering statistics about the extent of child trafficking. Because the trafficking is well hidden the statistics must be estimates. If we could actually count each trafficked child, they would be easier to rescue. So this becomes the kind of crime that can only be stopped when people are on the look-out and ready to report it when they uncover it. To get to that point, the media must become heavily involved. Internet articles like this are a start. But uliimately this must become a media priority.