Raising Awareness Against Child Exploitation
Join us in our mission to combat child sex trafficking and exploitation. As a dedicated duo from Florida, we aim to raise awareness and inspire action to protect vulnerable children. Together, we can make a difference and create a safer future for all children in our communities.
Child exploitation is a massive underground business, having already surpassed illegal weapons trading and soon will surpass drug trading. As Timothy Ballard says in "Sound of Freedom," "you can sell a bag of cocaine once. A 5-year-old child, you can sell them 5 to ten times a day, for ten years straight."
Sometimes when we read history, we see ourselves as saviors who would jump in to help, to fight for those who could not stand up for themselves from the injustices done upon them by history. If we would have, we would be doing that now. Today, about 50 million people are entrapped in slavery, more than anytime in history. And yet, nobody seriously advocates for trafficking victims' rights because the percentage is much smaller, due to the population of the world having drastically increased.
Often, when people do think about child trafficking, they picture strangers kidnapping kids and teenagers from dark and shady alleys, taken to places far away. In real life though, the exploitation is done in a far more complicated manner, relying on a systematic manipulation, grooming, and psychological tactics by traffickers, who can even be family members and adults they trust.
Preying on children who may be economically or socially vulnerable, traffickers use gaslighting and psychological tactics as a form of guilt and control. Other strategies used are confiscation of personal identification papers, threats, creation of attachment and Stockholm Syndrome in victims, and blackmail. Although runaway, homeless, and abused children are especially at risk, some are groomed into the industry while living at home and attending school.
It is not only the government’s job to help parents ensure that kids and teenagers know what they can do to protect themselves, but also that missing victims are recovered. Globally, law enforcement agencies have made countless arrests on charges of human trafficking each year, but the number of recovered victims has decreased. Most of the missing children are moved to international locations, far beyond the reach of local law enforcement. Thus, only international cooperation and citizens in those locations can help rescue these exploited children.
KNOW THE SIGNS.