While the term trafficking evokes for many images of children kidnapped off the street, smuggled across borders and moved from place to place, that’s rarely the case, social workers and researchers say.
Many who work with the children or who study the problem prefer the the term commercial sexual exploitation of children to trafficking, as it offers a much clearer picture of what’s happening.
TX: Sex Trafficking Refuge Engages in Sex Trafficking
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/10/texas-shelter-sex-trafficking-children/
Yes. It’s intentionally alarmist and catastrophizing to promote a false sense of “urgency” or immediacy to justify task forces (security theater jobs) and other fear mongering absurdities.
Social conditioning has allowed Joe Public to believe anything that’s fear-based. Just like with “sEx oFfeDeR,” trafficking sends the same dog whistle of outrage and resentment. It lights the candles of the ignorant by sending them the intentionally wrong message and conclusion.
Not sure why FAC is posting this article. How does it affect our cause?
Aside from that, CNN is not a fair and balanced “news” organization. There is only a hint that boys are also exploited, “although boys are trafficked, too.” Yet the article emphasizes that “the exploiters are almost always men.” So what are the percentage equivalents of “trafficked too” and “almost always”?
Just more fear-mongering to “trust no man” and to feed the “justice” system and prison-industrial-complex. I also question the term “billion-dollar industry.” They must be talking about law “enforcement” budgets to create crimes and “sex offenders”.
Perhaps these articles are more relevant?
https://www.villages-news.com/2020/11/26/convicted-sex-offender-from-ohio-registers-permanent-address-in-the-villages/
https://www.villages-news.com/2020/11/27/sex-offender-registers-address-at-home-near-family-pool-in-the-villages/
Just look at the hate and vitriol in the comments. Thank you FDLE!
I find this article most notable for what it DOESN’T say. It doesn’t say that registered sex offenders are doing the exploiting, or that sex offender registries have anything to do with prevention. In fact I couldn’t find the term “sex offenders” anywhere in the article. Some news organizations have had a lot more difficulty understanding the difference.
Did we get a posting on the “BIG” trafficking bust in jacksonville? I noticed most of the arrests were misdemeanors.
Many caught up in these stings are also parental custody violations and have nothing to do with sex – that might even explain some of the misdemeanors. Also many are teenage runaways