Chinese Police Save Hundreds of Babies from Online Trading Racket
Summary:
Chinese police shut down four child-trafficking rings and and arrested thousands in connection with people using websites and instant messages to buy and sell babies. The operation took placed over a six-month period in Beijing and Jiangsu in Eastern China. After investigating the police uncovered a virtual black market that holds forums that connects traffickers and potential buyers. Child trafficking has become a major concern in China because of a growing demand for healthy babies from potential adoptive parents in China and foreign places. A Chinese doctor received a suspended death sentence after trafficking babies into an online ring. The obstetrician convinced the babies parent's that the newborns were sick and should be given up so that they could be taken care of.
Analysis:
The article highlights another example of modern day slavery. A new sector of organized crime has emerged, the trafficking of babies online. This incident comes about as a result of globalization. Due to the connectivity of our modern would you no longer have to meet someone face to face to traffic, the criminals can solicit and sell their product (a healthy human baby) to someone on the other side of the world. Potential buyers can purchase a baby from other parts of the world using one click of a mouse. An complication that comes along with the trade being on online forums it makes it more difficult to track down the trafficker. The demand for healthy babies fuels this lucrative business and with these new forums for trafficking I believe the organization of the crime is evolving faster than what the police can keep up and will continue to be a social problem.
Article:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/28/world/asia/china-online-baby-trafficking-crackdown/
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Friday, April 18, 2014
Friday, April 11, 2014
Blog 9: Indonesian Woman Falls Victim to Human Trafficking in US
Indonesian Woman Falls Victim to Human Trafficking in US
Summary:
Shandra Woworuntu, a former bank analysts immigrated to the United States from Indonesia in 2001. When she arrived in the U.S. her passport and identification cards were taking and she was transported to a brothel in Connecticut that was isolated from any neighbors. Shandra was forced to perform sexual favors for strangers 24 hours a day and was moved between brothels in New York City and Connecticut. Shandra finally escaped by jumping from a second story bathroom window while in Brooklyn but then was forced to survive without any money or a place to live. She finally met someone who introduced her to the law enforcement and then she was referred to the Safe Horizon, which is a assistance agency that aid those who are victims of human trafficking.According to The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking agency there's approximately 14,000 to 17,000 women and children being trafficked into the United States each year to work in brothels, as prostitutes, and in bars as sex slaves.
Analysis:
This article reflects a new form of organized crime that is very profitable for those who run the brothel's and sex trafficking rings. Human trafficking has become a new form of slavery that in this case brings in slaves from other countries in promises of a better life and opportunity, but once the immigrants arrive they are receive the exact opposite and revokes their human rights. This modern day slavery mainly involves minority women and children, a marginalized group, as the victims and men, the dominant group as the captors. Although there are agency who are working to end human trafficking there are still thousands of people being trafficked into the United States in the new area of organized crime only leaving me to think that a end to human trafficking is no where in the near future.
Article:
http://en.tempo.co/read/news/2014/02/01/074550170/Indonesian-Woman-Falls-Victim-to-Human-Trafficking-in-US
Summary:
Shandra Woworuntu, a former bank analysts immigrated to the United States from Indonesia in 2001. When she arrived in the U.S. her passport and identification cards were taking and she was transported to a brothel in Connecticut that was isolated from any neighbors. Shandra was forced to perform sexual favors for strangers 24 hours a day and was moved between brothels in New York City and Connecticut. Shandra finally escaped by jumping from a second story bathroom window while in Brooklyn but then was forced to survive without any money or a place to live. She finally met someone who introduced her to the law enforcement and then she was referred to the Safe Horizon, which is a assistance agency that aid those who are victims of human trafficking.According to The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking agency there's approximately 14,000 to 17,000 women and children being trafficked into the United States each year to work in brothels, as prostitutes, and in bars as sex slaves.
Analysis:
This article reflects a new form of organized crime that is very profitable for those who run the brothel's and sex trafficking rings. Human trafficking has become a new form of slavery that in this case brings in slaves from other countries in promises of a better life and opportunity, but once the immigrants arrive they are receive the exact opposite and revokes their human rights. This modern day slavery mainly involves minority women and children, a marginalized group, as the victims and men, the dominant group as the captors. Although there are agency who are working to end human trafficking there are still thousands of people being trafficked into the United States in the new area of organized crime only leaving me to think that a end to human trafficking is no where in the near future.
Article:
http://en.tempo.co/read/news/2014/02/01/074550170/Indonesian-Woman-Falls-Victim-to-Human-Trafficking-in-US
Friday, April 4, 2014
Blog 8: Kendell Hill, Rally planned at Miami Dade College to campaign against human trafficking,
Rally planned at Miami Dade College to campaign against human trafficking
Summary:
This article talks about Katrina Rosenblatt who was a victim of human trafficking and was sold and raped multiple times for four years as a minor. In her story she escapes human trafficking and returns home and upon returning her mother took her to the police to report the crime. Instead of recieving justice, Katrina was told that she was a juvenile delinquent, a drug addict and they could not help her. She is now an activist who works with victims of human trafficking. Roseblatt has started the H.O.P.E foundations which is a non-profit organization that aids victims of human trafficking and sex slavery. Katrina talked about her story at One Billion For Justice event at Miami Dade College. Activist like Rosenblatt say even though progress has been made there still needs to be a lot more changes to bring a end to this modern day slavery.
Analysis:
This article reflects the legal reality theory pertaining to human trafficking. Although Rosenblatt came to law enforcement for justice after being brought and sold into human trafficking, she received no justice. This made me think sociologically and I referred to the labeling theory, Katrina being labeled a delinquent had to have a negative affect on her for the rest of her life along with being trafficked. Katrina and every other women who has been trafficked has been treated like property and marginalized, which shows a social problem that women face in today's society and throughout history. Human trafficking is a new form of slavery and the amount of attention that has been brought about to end it is not enough. It's treated like a unspoken crime and has far less conviction than it should globally.
Article:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/12/3931217/rally-planned-at-miami-dade-college.html
Summary:
This article talks about Katrina Rosenblatt who was a victim of human trafficking and was sold and raped multiple times for four years as a minor. In her story she escapes human trafficking and returns home and upon returning her mother took her to the police to report the crime. Instead of recieving justice, Katrina was told that she was a juvenile delinquent, a drug addict and they could not help her. She is now an activist who works with victims of human trafficking. Roseblatt has started the H.O.P.E foundations which is a non-profit organization that aids victims of human trafficking and sex slavery. Katrina talked about her story at One Billion For Justice event at Miami Dade College. Activist like Rosenblatt say even though progress has been made there still needs to be a lot more changes to bring a end to this modern day slavery.
Analysis:
This article reflects the legal reality theory pertaining to human trafficking. Although Rosenblatt came to law enforcement for justice after being brought and sold into human trafficking, she received no justice. This made me think sociologically and I referred to the labeling theory, Katrina being labeled a delinquent had to have a negative affect on her for the rest of her life along with being trafficked. Katrina and every other women who has been trafficked has been treated like property and marginalized, which shows a social problem that women face in today's society and throughout history. Human trafficking is a new form of slavery and the amount of attention that has been brought about to end it is not enough. It's treated like a unspoken crime and has far less conviction than it should globally.
Article:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/02/12/3931217/rally-planned-at-miami-dade-college.html
Friday, March 28, 2014
Blog 7, Kendell Hill, 3/28/2014, 3:03pm, Human Trafficking Going Unpunished In Canada, Expects Say
Human Trafficking Going Unpunished In Canada, Expects Say
Summary:
This article was about the number of human traffickers that have gone unpunished in Canada after reforms of laws to convict offenders. New laws came into effect in 2005 and since then there's only been 35 human trafficking convictions, two of the thirty-five were forced labor. Many denote the fact that too many people are getting away with human trafficking to the fact that Canadian law enforcement not being trained to deal with human trafficking. The article also stated that human trafficking was under-reported, because victims do not typically go the the police and recount their ordeals. Majority of the women who are trafficked in Canada are aboriginal and are marginalized because they are refugees, immigrants or brought in from another country for human trafficking purposes.
Analyzes:
This article highlights a dark figure of crime that exists in Canada. The victims of human trafficking usually don't report the crime if they ever do get free of their traffickers because of fear or shame. Because it goes under-reported so society doesn't see it as a problem therefore there's not a big push to solve this social and moral problem. Another thing that is highlighted in the article is that women are being marginalized and forced into labor which is a social problem that is happening all over the world. Women who have no other means of surviving are forced into human trafficking in order to stay alive, a direct result of poverty and a lack of education.
Article:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/human-traffickers-going-unpunished-in-canada-experts-say-1.2584944
Summary:
This article was about the number of human traffickers that have gone unpunished in Canada after reforms of laws to convict offenders. New laws came into effect in 2005 and since then there's only been 35 human trafficking convictions, two of the thirty-five were forced labor. Many denote the fact that too many people are getting away with human trafficking to the fact that Canadian law enforcement not being trained to deal with human trafficking. The article also stated that human trafficking was under-reported, because victims do not typically go the the police and recount their ordeals. Majority of the women who are trafficked in Canada are aboriginal and are marginalized because they are refugees, immigrants or brought in from another country for human trafficking purposes.
Analyzes:
This article highlights a dark figure of crime that exists in Canada. The victims of human trafficking usually don't report the crime if they ever do get free of their traffickers because of fear or shame. Because it goes under-reported so society doesn't see it as a problem therefore there's not a big push to solve this social and moral problem. Another thing that is highlighted in the article is that women are being marginalized and forced into labor which is a social problem that is happening all over the world. Women who have no other means of surviving are forced into human trafficking in order to stay alive, a direct result of poverty and a lack of education.
Article:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/human-traffickers-going-unpunished-in-canada-experts-say-1.2584944
Friday, March 21, 2014
Blog 6: KendellHill, 3/21/201, 2:51pm, Human Trafficking
Forced Labor, Prostitution continues at U.S. Mexico Border
Summary:
The report is about the illegal transport of young women along the San Diego-Tijuana and highlights how the are brought, sold, and forced into sex labor in Mexico and the United States. The report talks about the experience of a 19 year old girl who is kidnapped and forced into to sex slavery by one of her friends, then is rescued and placed in a group home in Tijuana with other girls who also lived through similar ordeals. La Casa del Jardin is a shelter that takes in young girls of Mexican nationality, who are victims of sex labor and lets them live there until their adult age to deter them become victimizers as an adult as a result of the mistreatment in their youth. La Casa del Jardin is one of only two shelter of its kind in Mexico. The report also talks about Coyotes who illegally help immigrants make the journey from Mexico into the United States for sums of money. The Coyotes most often time face difficult obstacles while trying to reach and cross the borders so in order to make a more lucrative business they sometimes result in human trafficking, exploiting the immigrants, killing them or ask for more money to return them to their families. Mexico is looked at as a "Tier 2" country meaning that although they have taken steps to stop human trafficking they lack sufficient federal and state co-coordination to improve the situation.
Analyses:
This report highlights the unfortunate consequences that immigrants have endured while trying to make a better life for themselves and also highlights a prevailing fact about crime. The Coyotes who these immigrants trust have began to sell them into sex slavery to make a better profit which has led to a increase in human trafficking between the borders. Although places like La Casa del Jardin exist it's only one of two places in Mexico for rescued trafficked women. There no way that these two places could house all of the women who have been a victim of sex labor in Mexico so although it helps it cannot help enough people. Due to the state of Mexico's federal and state government there can't be a real strive in eliminating the problem of human trafficking in Mexico which means more people will continue to suffer. The fact of crime that I noticed this report illustrated was that you are more likely to be victimized by someone you know, than a stranger. In most cases presented in this article the victim says they were trafficked by a friend or family member or someone they had some kind of trust in.
Article:
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/forced-labor-prostitution-continues-us-mexico-border
Summary:
The report is about the illegal transport of young women along the San Diego-Tijuana and highlights how the are brought, sold, and forced into sex labor in Mexico and the United States. The report talks about the experience of a 19 year old girl who is kidnapped and forced into to sex slavery by one of her friends, then is rescued and placed in a group home in Tijuana with other girls who also lived through similar ordeals. La Casa del Jardin is a shelter that takes in young girls of Mexican nationality, who are victims of sex labor and lets them live there until their adult age to deter them become victimizers as an adult as a result of the mistreatment in their youth. La Casa del Jardin is one of only two shelter of its kind in Mexico. The report also talks about Coyotes who illegally help immigrants make the journey from Mexico into the United States for sums of money. The Coyotes most often time face difficult obstacles while trying to reach and cross the borders so in order to make a more lucrative business they sometimes result in human trafficking, exploiting the immigrants, killing them or ask for more money to return them to their families. Mexico is looked at as a "Tier 2" country meaning that although they have taken steps to stop human trafficking they lack sufficient federal and state co-coordination to improve the situation.
Analyses:
This report highlights the unfortunate consequences that immigrants have endured while trying to make a better life for themselves and also highlights a prevailing fact about crime. The Coyotes who these immigrants trust have began to sell them into sex slavery to make a better profit which has led to a increase in human trafficking between the borders. Although places like La Casa del Jardin exist it's only one of two places in Mexico for rescued trafficked women. There no way that these two places could house all of the women who have been a victim of sex labor in Mexico so although it helps it cannot help enough people. Due to the state of Mexico's federal and state government there can't be a real strive in eliminating the problem of human trafficking in Mexico which means more people will continue to suffer. The fact of crime that I noticed this report illustrated was that you are more likely to be victimized by someone you know, than a stranger. In most cases presented in this article the victim says they were trafficked by a friend or family member or someone they had some kind of trust in.
Article:
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/forced-labor-prostitution-continues-us-mexico-border
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Blog 5: Kendell Hill, 3/9/2014/, 7:26pm, Cambodia fears rise in child sexual exploitation with influx of tourism
Cambodia fears rise in child sexual exploitation with influx of tourism
Summary
Cambodia is fearful of an influx of regional tourism after the ASEAN Economic Community is put into action. The integration of the ASEAN Economic Community is suppose to promote connectivity with Southeast Asia which will mean their people, goods, and services could move more freely. This new found freedom may come with negative side effects. A big portion of the people of Cambodia already make their living by selling things to tourists and children may become a new product. Combodia's government has made efforts to protect children by preforming raids and making arrest but there's corruption within their government which is evident, along with a lack of law enforcement. There has been a increase in commercial sex centres in Cambodia has also led to a increase in child sex exploitation.
Analysis
This report highlights the dark side of advancement in developing countries. The ASEAN Economic Community should have been a positive thing but it also brings a new opportunity for crime and profit. Due to the poverty in Cambodia many people sell whatever they can to survive and children seem to be a new product that can ensure survival. Although I can not imagine selling a child when I think objectively I can see why these people would. Although it is illegal there is no strict law enforcement to prevent this from occurring. I strive to think of this crime situation with the positivist theory in mind and determine the causes of this situation. There's extreme poverty, misplaced children, a lack of law enforcement, and an increase of predator tourists, these four conditions led to a situation that would result in a increase of human trafficking crime.
Article
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/cambodia-fears-rise-in/1018720.html
Summary
Cambodia is fearful of an influx of regional tourism after the ASEAN Economic Community is put into action. The integration of the ASEAN Economic Community is suppose to promote connectivity with Southeast Asia which will mean their people, goods, and services could move more freely. This new found freedom may come with negative side effects. A big portion of the people of Cambodia already make their living by selling things to tourists and children may become a new product. Combodia's government has made efforts to protect children by preforming raids and making arrest but there's corruption within their government which is evident, along with a lack of law enforcement. There has been a increase in commercial sex centres in Cambodia has also led to a increase in child sex exploitation.
Analysis
This report highlights the dark side of advancement in developing countries. The ASEAN Economic Community should have been a positive thing but it also brings a new opportunity for crime and profit. Due to the poverty in Cambodia many people sell whatever they can to survive and children seem to be a new product that can ensure survival. Although I can not imagine selling a child when I think objectively I can see why these people would. Although it is illegal there is no strict law enforcement to prevent this from occurring. I strive to think of this crime situation with the positivist theory in mind and determine the causes of this situation. There's extreme poverty, misplaced children, a lack of law enforcement, and an increase of predator tourists, these four conditions led to a situation that would result in a increase of human trafficking crime.
Article
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/cambodia-fears-rise-in/1018720.html
Friday, February 28, 2014
Blog 4: Kendell Hill, 2/28/2014, 2:36 Human Trafficking
Mothers as Traffickers
Summary
CNN met with mothers in Svay Pak about why they traffic their daughters. Many mothers stated that they have no other choice for a source of income for their family. The mothers believed that their daughters felt like trafficking for their families was normal and their contribution to their household.The families are usually large and in order for them to survive, sacrifices have to be made. Many mothers take their young daughters to the hospital to be examined and receive a certificate of virginity and then sell their daughter's virginity for a large amounts of money.
Analysis
The article highlights that in regions were there is extreme poverty these mothers traffic their daughter to unsure their families survival. This exemplifies the social construction of a opposing country. In the United States we wouldn't imagine selling our children in order to provide for our families, we would look towards the government for help, but in places where they don't have these options mothers feel forced to sell their child's innocence. It also shows how what might be deviant to us is normal to someone else or necessary. Using the positivist theory I objectively look at the situation examine the causes of the deviance and determine that it is poverty. Although I do not agree with the act of trafficking, I objectively comprehend why these mothers would make such a inhumane sacrifice. This article makes me question their level of moral aptitude, as it must be difficult to make such a conscience choice to hand over your own offspring.
Article
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/12/world/cambodia-child-sex-trade/
Summary
CNN met with mothers in Svay Pak about why they traffic their daughters. Many mothers stated that they have no other choice for a source of income for their family. The mothers believed that their daughters felt like trafficking for their families was normal and their contribution to their household.The families are usually large and in order for them to survive, sacrifices have to be made. Many mothers take their young daughters to the hospital to be examined and receive a certificate of virginity and then sell their daughter's virginity for a large amounts of money.
Analysis
The article highlights that in regions were there is extreme poverty these mothers traffic their daughter to unsure their families survival. This exemplifies the social construction of a opposing country. In the United States we wouldn't imagine selling our children in order to provide for our families, we would look towards the government for help, but in places where they don't have these options mothers feel forced to sell their child's innocence. It also shows how what might be deviant to us is normal to someone else or necessary. Using the positivist theory I objectively look at the situation examine the causes of the deviance and determine that it is poverty. Although I do not agree with the act of trafficking, I objectively comprehend why these mothers would make such a inhumane sacrifice. This article makes me question their level of moral aptitude, as it must be difficult to make such a conscience choice to hand over your own offspring.
Article
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2013/12/world/cambodia-child-sex-trade/
Friday, February 21, 2014
Blog 3: Kendell Hill, Human Trafficking, 2/21/14, 4:20pm
Summary
Joaquin Mendez-Hernandez, a national of Savannah was was sentenced to life in a federal prison for his role in a sex-trafficking ring that operated in southeast United States. The ring involved a large amount of immigrant women who were trafficked, shipped to shacks in Georgia and the Carolinas where they were met by 20 or 30 immigrant men waiting to have sex with them. The women were trying to buy their freedom by being in the sex trade but their debt is never ending and they are basically in indentured servitude. The article states that even though they rescued these women, for every 10 women saved there are 50 or 100 more women being brought by traffickers.
Analysis
This report highlights how human trafficking is a growing industry and the lengths people will go to make money and be free. In the United States we are all feed this idea of the American dream. The people who are involved in sex trafficking whether its operating the ring or becoming a victim of it, have to engage in unspeakable acts to reach the goal of freedom or riches. When thinking about Mertons's Means Goal Gap theory, those who are operating the ring are somewhat innovators, because they are going after the American dream of rags to riches but not going through legit means to achieve that. These trafficking rings are a new form of slavery. Slavery has been prevalent through out human existence but in most cases in history the enslaving was based on race or ethnicity but now its based on gender. These vulnerable women are enslaved by these powerful men because they are so desperate for their freedom they are willing to sell their bodies based on a hope that one day they will be able to be free in America. These incidents are happening in and around our own state and are not individual problems, they are social problems.
Article
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/19/justice/southeast-sex-trafficking-ring/
Joaquin Mendez-Hernandez, a national of Savannah was was sentenced to life in a federal prison for his role in a sex-trafficking ring that operated in southeast United States. The ring involved a large amount of immigrant women who were trafficked, shipped to shacks in Georgia and the Carolinas where they were met by 20 or 30 immigrant men waiting to have sex with them. The women were trying to buy their freedom by being in the sex trade but their debt is never ending and they are basically in indentured servitude. The article states that even though they rescued these women, for every 10 women saved there are 50 or 100 more women being brought by traffickers.
Analysis
This report highlights how human trafficking is a growing industry and the lengths people will go to make money and be free. In the United States we are all feed this idea of the American dream. The people who are involved in sex trafficking whether its operating the ring or becoming a victim of it, have to engage in unspeakable acts to reach the goal of freedom or riches. When thinking about Mertons's Means Goal Gap theory, those who are operating the ring are somewhat innovators, because they are going after the American dream of rags to riches but not going through legit means to achieve that. These trafficking rings are a new form of slavery. Slavery has been prevalent through out human existence but in most cases in history the enslaving was based on race or ethnicity but now its based on gender. These vulnerable women are enslaved by these powerful men because they are so desperate for their freedom they are willing to sell their bodies based on a hope that one day they will be able to be free in America. These incidents are happening in and around our own state and are not individual problems, they are social problems.
Article
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/19/justice/southeast-sex-trafficking-ring/
Friday, February 14, 2014
Blog 2: Kendell Hill 2/14/2014 3:39pm- Human Trafficking
Sex Workers Protest Against Sexual Violence on V-day
Summary
Approximately 70 women set off around the red-light district of Sonagachi and Mushiganj in a two kilometer stretch to protest against sexual violence. Most of the women were either daughters of women who work in the district or victims of the sexual abuse in the district themselves. After the rally was over young children who mothers have been abused took part in a poignant street play about how girls were being trafficked and left with no other options for except prostitution. Women at the rally stated that "Police should ensure the safety of the women or girls with greater priority".
Analysis
This report highlights the inequality of women in this developing country. The women are trafficked in at young age depriving them of education and safety and then left with no other job opportunities except prostitution. This event also reflects what we read about in chapter 3 about women being tired, stressed and angry because of the conditions they have to live under because they are treated unequally. Even law enforcement does nothing to rectify these women's situations as they are treated like second class citizens.
Article Link
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/sex-workers-protest-against-sexual-violence-on-v-day-114021401527_1.html
Summary
Approximately 70 women set off around the red-light district of Sonagachi and Mushiganj in a two kilometer stretch to protest against sexual violence. Most of the women were either daughters of women who work in the district or victims of the sexual abuse in the district themselves. After the rally was over young children who mothers have been abused took part in a poignant street play about how girls were being trafficked and left with no other options for except prostitution. Women at the rally stated that "Police should ensure the safety of the women or girls with greater priority".
Analysis
This report highlights the inequality of women in this developing country. The women are trafficked in at young age depriving them of education and safety and then left with no other job opportunities except prostitution. This event also reflects what we read about in chapter 3 about women being tired, stressed and angry because of the conditions they have to live under because they are treated unequally. Even law enforcement does nothing to rectify these women's situations as they are treated like second class citizens.
Article Link
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/sex-workers-protest-against-sexual-violence-on-v-day-114021401527_1.html
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Blog 1: Kendell Hill 2/7/2014 12:17am Human Trafficking- Missing children rescued from Super Bowl sex trade in FBI sting
Missing Children Rescued from Super Bowl Sex Trade in FBI Sting: Posted February 4, 2014
Summary
The FBI rescued sixteen children ranging ages thirteen to seventeen involved in a sex trade in New Jersey during the Super Bowl weekend. There were more than forty five pimps arrested in connection to the operation and some of the children rescued had been reported missing by their families. Some of the pimps and the kidnapped children had traveled to New Jersey for the Super Bowl weekend for the sole purpose of trafficking to tourist for money. The FBI reports that high-profile special events like the super bowl have become "lucrative opportunities for child prostitution criminal enterprises" as stated by Ron Hosko, assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division.
Analysis
This report highlights a new trend in human trafficking that is alarming and emphasizes a need to take more action to help stop human trafficking and it's victimization. The report points out that high profile events have made new opportunities for human trafficking due to the amount of attention and tourists who come to participate in these events. In chapter 5, our text talks about the link between the growth in the free market with less governmental influence and greater opportunities for crime cartels like the ones being operated behind closed doors of high profile events.
Article link:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/04/fbi-sting-rescues-missing-children-from-super-bowl-sex-trade/
Summary
The FBI rescued sixteen children ranging ages thirteen to seventeen involved in a sex trade in New Jersey during the Super Bowl weekend. There were more than forty five pimps arrested in connection to the operation and some of the children rescued had been reported missing by their families. Some of the pimps and the kidnapped children had traveled to New Jersey for the Super Bowl weekend for the sole purpose of trafficking to tourist for money. The FBI reports that high-profile special events like the super bowl have become "lucrative opportunities for child prostitution criminal enterprises" as stated by Ron Hosko, assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division.
Analysis
This report highlights a new trend in human trafficking that is alarming and emphasizes a need to take more action to help stop human trafficking and it's victimization. The report points out that high profile events have made new opportunities for human trafficking due to the amount of attention and tourists who come to participate in these events. In chapter 5, our text talks about the link between the growth in the free market with less governmental influence and greater opportunities for crime cartels like the ones being operated behind closed doors of high profile events.
Article link:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/02/04/fbi-sting-rescues-missing-children-from-super-bowl-sex-trade/
Friday, January 31, 2014
Human Trafficking
My name is Kendell Hill and the topic I will be covering is human trafficking. The topic of human trafficking has always interested me and I would like to see what is happen around the world relating to it and what has been done to help bring human trafficking to an end.
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