Child Trafficking Persuasive Speech
Professor DeFrance
English 1
12 March 2014
A Stop to Child Trafficking
Statistics from the Department of Justice show that over 100,000 children in the U.S. fall victim to sex-trafficking each year, and 300,000 to 400,000 American children are involved in some form of sex-trafficking annually. The average age of child prostitution is 13. By the time these kids become adults they have already gone through multiple abortions. These are kids who are supposed to be in school reading and writing, making friends and having fun enjoying their childhood. Instead, they are being kidnapped and forced into child prostitution, and scarred for life mentally and physically. Their childhood is being stripped away. A proposed bill titled “H.R.3081” aims …show more content…
“Human Trafficking is a crime against humanity. It involves an act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring, or receiving a person through a use of force, coercion, or other means, for the purpose of exploiting them,” according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). It is also the fastest growing form of international crime and the second largest source of income for organized crime, which is even higher than the drug trade. Innocent and vulnerable kids are being taken away from their friends and family and are imprisoned, tortured and sexually abused. Just this year on February 2nd, 2014, the day of the Super bowl, “The FBI rescued 16 juveniles and arrested more than 45 pimps in conjunction with a child sex trafficking operation that revolved around the Super Bowl” (“CBS Sports- Eye on Football”). These kids ranged from 13-17 years old, and were all reported missing by their families. Big events like the Super Bowl that draw large crowds have been reported to be the most profitable opportunities for child prostitution. This bill supports federal agencies like the FBI, but funding them to help in situations like this to rescue and recover children from
English 1
12 March 2014
A Stop to Child Trafficking
Statistics from the Department of Justice show that over 100,000 children in the U.S. fall victim to sex-trafficking each year, and 300,000 to 400,000 American children are involved in some form of sex-trafficking annually. The average age of child prostitution is 13. By the time these kids become adults they have already gone through multiple abortions. These are kids who are supposed to be in school reading and writing, making friends and having fun enjoying their childhood. Instead, they are being kidnapped and forced into child prostitution, and scarred for life mentally and physically. Their childhood is being stripped away. A proposed bill titled “H.R.3081” aims …show more content…
“Human Trafficking is a crime against humanity. It involves an act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring, or receiving a person through a use of force, coercion, or other means, for the purpose of exploiting them,” according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). It is also the fastest growing form of international crime and the second largest source of income for organized crime, which is even higher than the drug trade. Innocent and vulnerable kids are being taken away from their friends and family and are imprisoned, tortured and sexually abused. Just this year on February 2nd, 2014, the day of the Super bowl, “The FBI rescued 16 juveniles and arrested more than 45 pimps in conjunction with a child sex trafficking operation that revolved around the Super Bowl” (“CBS Sports- Eye on Football”). These kids ranged from 13-17 years old, and were all reported missing by their families. Big events like the Super Bowl that draw large crowds have been reported to be the most profitable opportunities for child prostitution. This bill supports federal agencies like the FBI, but funding them to help in situations like this to rescue and recover children from