From the Dept. of Education - Click for more info
How Does Human Trafficking Affect Our Schools?
Trafficking can involve school-age children—particularly those not living with their parents—who are vulnerable to coerced labor exploitation, domestic servitude, or commercial sexual exploitation (i.e., prostitution).
Sex traffickers target children because of their vulnerability and gullibility, as well as the market demand for young victims. Those who recruit minors into prostitution violate federal anti-trafficking laws, even if there is no coercion or movement across state lines. The children at risk are not just high school students—studies demonstrate that pimps prey on victims as young as 12. Traffickers have been reported targeting their minor victims through telephone chat-lines, clubs, on the street, through friends, and at malls, as well as using girls to recruit other girls at schools and after-school programs.
School Safety Partners as presented by U.S. Department of State.
Read a confession from a retired school teacher who engaged in having sex with a minor.
"On this trip, I've had sex with a 14 year-old girl in Mexico and a 15 year-old in Colombia. I'm helping them financially. If they don't have sex with me, they may not have enough food. If someone has a problem with me doing this, let UNICEF feed them." -Retired U.S. Schoolteacher (Child Exploitation and Obsenity Section CEOS)
SeSSeptember 2010 - Human Trafficking's Misery Hits Home for Family of 14 Year Old 9th Grade Student
The term human trafficking brings dark, shadowy images to mind. One might picture poor and desperate foreigners smuggled into the United States or other countries and held in servitude in sweatshops, working in deplorable conditions.
Or perhaps it conjures images of young girls being shipped all over the world, where they are forced into lives of prostitution.....
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