https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/10/texas-shelter-sex-trafficking-children/

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.

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.

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!

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