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Sex trafficking in the U.S. called ‘epidemic’
The Washington Times ^ | Saturday, April 23, 2011

Posted on 04/23/2011 9:21:06 AM PDT by GonzoII

When she first showed up at Children of the Night, a privately-funded residential facility, Jane was angry. Arrested more than 20 times as a prostitute, she had been hardened by the street. She threw things at her counselors. Everyone was terrified in having to deal with her.

“She was just afraid. She was use to being treated so rough,” said Lois Lee, the Los Angeles group’s founder and president. “She didn’t know what to do with someone nice.”

Jane, not her real name, was just 14 when her life was hijacked in Seattle by a 36-year-old man who said he loved her and promised to give her a better life. It was an easy sell: The product of a troubled home, she was sexually molested by her father’s roommate — the abuse beginning when she was 4. She also was molested at the daycare center where she was taken every day.

“My mom was a junkie,” Jane, now 17, said in a recent interview. “I lived with my dad. He was up and down with his moods. He had a marijuana addiction — I can’t remember much of my childhood. I block it out.”

Jane said the molestation made her shy and when she finally told someone about it — her aunt — her father turned away from her. “I needed his support, but he started to shut down,” she said. “I figured he didn’t care anymore (about me) and so I didn’t care anymore. I just started staying away from my house.”

She ended up with a family friend, a woman who forced her to work as a prostitute and sell drugs. That’s when she met James Jackson, the man she called Jay, who convinced her to go with him to Portland, Ore.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: family; moralabsolutes; parenting; pederast; pedophile; pimp; prostitution; sex; sextrafficking
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To: Mr. K

Very few people smoke mj moderately.


21 posted on 04/23/2011 1:21:36 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: MrEdd

And here’s where the slippery slope leads (probably lower depths even than this):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2708765/posts

VIDEO: Pro-Homosexuals at Brown University Respond to Peaceful TFP Rally with Violence
TFP Student Action ^ | March 23, 2011 | John Ritchie

Quote from pro-homosexual advocate protesting against those standing up for real marriage:


“What moral grounds do you stand on to oppose pedophilia, once you’ve accepted homosexual behavior?” asked Mr. Pribble.

“You’re right,” answered the student. “I don’t have any substantive objection with pedophilia.”


22 posted on 04/23/2011 1:47:30 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: mamelukesabre

Nice try.


23 posted on 04/23/2011 3:32:34 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: marktwain
Dear Mark,

Visit the Department of Justice website and search under "sex trafficking." This number is BELOW what the DOJ estimates, and BELOW what the estimates have been for 2 decades when it came to my attention.

So unpeg your BS meter, my friend. This is an evil scourge, and has been for a long time.

24 posted on 04/23/2011 8:39:17 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (Buy Ammo Often)
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To: marktwain
Source. The same source that has held similar numbers and statistics since the early 1990's.

The Department of Justice

What law enforcement is doing about it....

The FBI

25 posted on 04/23/2011 8:54:04 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (Buy Ammo Often)
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To: TheWriterTX

If there wasnt a demand...there wouldnt be a need.
Guys who use child hookers should have their privates knocked off with a ball peen hammer. Pimps should be keeled hauled or dipped in molten lead.
Cut off the demand and the suppliers, and the problem would be solved.


26 posted on 04/24/2011 6:53:38 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: Yorlik803
I think if more men where aware that the average age of a girl being indoctrinated into prostitution (either through choice or...with ever increasing numbers...by force) is 12, they would think twice.

In other words, a lot of these girls are NOT consenting adults.

We haven't even talked about the boys...

The decline of America continues...

27 posted on 04/24/2011 9:32:22 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (Buy Ammo Often)
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