Each year, hundreds of thousands of teenage girls and younger children of both sexes are kidnapped, sold or tricked into sexual slavery and shipped across international boundaries. Some work in brothels, while others are traded from one abuser to the next. Their suffering is often filmed and photographed, then sold over the Internet.
Many victims of this crime die from beatings, AIDS, tuberculosis, forced abortions or malnutrition. Some survive as broken souls with a host of mental and physical problems and no easy way to return to normal society. Others go on to become pimps and madams themselves, perpetuating the brutality they experienced.
As complex an issue as it is heartbreaking and controversial, the child sex trade is a global tragedy. Aided by the Internet and fueled by a host of social and cultural conditions that vary from nation to nation–including poverty, ignorance and the low social status of women and children–this most heinous form of exploitation is now a multi-billion-dollar worldwide industry.
"We’re talking about infants as young as 3 months old all the way up to mid-teens who are kidnapped and sold across international lines for the sex trade,"
Many victims of this crime die from beatings, AIDS, tuberculosis, forced abortions or malnutrition. Some survive as broken souls with a host of mental and physical problems and no easy way to return to normal society. Others go on to become pimps and madams themselves, perpetuating the brutality they experienced.
As complex an issue as it is heartbreaking and controversial, the child sex trade is a global tragedy. Aided by the Internet and fueled by a host of social and cultural conditions that vary from nation to nation–including poverty, ignorance and the low social status of women and children–this most heinous form of exploitation is now a multi-billion-dollar worldwide industry.
"We’re talking about infants as young as 3 months old all the way up to mid-teens who are kidnapped and sold across international lines for the sex trade,"
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