After being instructed by a friend to look on Craigslist for her missing 12 year old daughter, a mother was astonished at what she saw. Her 12 year old daughter was being sold on Craigslist for sex. This CNN article explains a far too common story. A kidnaped girl is sold and forced into online underage sex trafficking. Although Craigslist has shut down the adult services section of the website, there are far too many other sources for these services. Something that was in the past done on the streets is now done over the internet, making it almost impossible for police to detect. Buyers are now able to sit on their computer in their home or hotel room, call a number and a girl comes to them. It is unbelievable how accessible sex has become. A shocking statistic in the article states that from a study done in Georgia roughly 7,200 men a month buy sex from adolescent girls in Georgia alone.
This article grabbed my attention right away. It seems to be a topic that is often not discussed, but is a far too common story. Although I have heard stories like this in the past I was unaware of the frequency of these situations. It shocked me to see how many people in our society are willing to participate in underage sex trafficking and how corporations like Craigslist are doing very little to combat this problem. Even the chief executive of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children stated that moving the problem back onto the streets would be progress, and one of their goals is moving those involved into some other illicit enterprise. How have we as a society and even our leaders become so fallen and corrupt that we are doing nothing to stop these things from happening to our children?
Right away the question came to mind, what can I do? What can we do???
This is certainly a scary reality. I read a story one time of a woman that hunts these men down. On the internet she sets up a time and place to meet a sex offender saying she will bring her "child" and the police step in. We as citizens should most earnously pray and also report incidents that are suspicious.
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