America’s Dirty Little Secret, Child Sex Trafficking

a $10 Billion+ Business In America… HNewsWire- Sex trafficking is a crime most people associate with foreign women or girls — from Latin America, Asia, or Eastern Europe — but pimps and criminal gangs across America are increasingly targeting runaways from the U.S., typically teenagers from disadvantaged backgrounds, who they force into prostitution. Experts say that the nature of the crime and the organized gang networks involved make it difficult to estimate exactly how many children are victimized, up to 450,000 children across America are at risk. The Bureau classified human trafficking as the third-largest and fastest-growing criminal enterprise in the world. Anti-sex trafficking groups estimate that, annually, it’s a $10 billion+ business in America alone. Eight hundred thousand children go missing every year across the country, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, an agency set … Continue reading America’s Dirty Little Secret, Child Sex Trafficking