http://www.katc.com/news/baton-rouge-ranks-in-top-ten-cities-for-human-trafficking/
After reading other people’s show and tell posts about human
trafficking I wanted to share something I found as well so people could become
more aware. I wanted to share a news report about this issue around Baton Rouge
so people will see that it happens so close to home, but I also took a lot of
information from the websites shared in other posts (Trafficking Hope and
Tigers Against Trafficking). Before I read the other posts I didn’t really
consider human trafficking as a big issue in the United States or even Baton
Rouge for that matter. I always thought of human trafficking as something that
happened mostly over seas, but it is happening everywhere in the US as well.
With Baton Rouge ranked one of the top ten cities for human trafficking it is a
much bigger issue happening close to home that not many people are aware of.
Girls from all age ranges are taken from their schools or
parks, even lured in by false advertisements on the Internet and sold for sex. The
girls that are being trafficked are threatened everyday to make a certain quota
and if they don’t meet it they are beaten and harmed. Not only are they
threatened if they don’t meet their quota, but they are also threatened into
silence. Many girls are too afraid to talk about how they were taken from their
homes because their life or the their families lives have been threatened by
the people in charge of the human trafficking. These girls are only seen as objects
to be sold and are so badly mistreated and abused that they often times die
because of it. It is a scary thought that there are girls out there that have
been taken from their homes to be trafficked for sex and an even scarier
thought that anyone of us could fall victim to it.
Not many people are aware of this issue because it is a very
hidden thing and people don’t want to believe it is happening. Sex and human
trafficking is such a taboo topic that people just choose not to think about
it. No one wants to consider that it is happening anywhere in the world much
less their own town. The only way to stop human trafficking though, is for more
people to be aware of what is going on around them. Taboo topic or not it is
happening and it is something that needs to be stopped immediately.
Here is an additional news report about human trafficking in
Baton Rouge. It touches in the issue of human trafficking in Baton Rouge as
well as how Trafficking Hope and Tigers Against Trafficking got started.
http://www.nbc33tv.com/news/local-news/human-trafficking-in-baton-rouge
