[Sherman Logan]

It's kidnapping, rape and false imprisonment. And I have no problem with imposing the death penalty on the kidnappers, and for that matter on the johns.

Which would bring a screeching halt to the industry.

I quite agree it is like slavery in many ways, but I think that classifying illegal exploitation as being slavery is an inappropriate minimization of the horror that is real slavery.

After Alissa testified against her pimps, six of them went to prison for up to 25 years.

In real slavery, the police would have returned Alissa to her abusers at the specific direction of the law, not arrested and prosecuted them.

[a fool in paradise]

Slavery is illegal in the United States. Therefore the property is not returned to the “owner”.

Although there are corrupt figures (Democrats) who DO look the other way when children are being sold and public assistance is sought (recall the ACORN video of the “pimp”).