BORN OF WHITE FATHERS

AND GENOCIDE

WHO DID NOT KNOW THEY WERE WHITE EVEN LATINO IN THE UNITED STATES  SAID TO BE TAKEN OVER BY HOLLYWOOD STARLETS AND ACTORS OFF OCEAN'S AKA THEY ARE ENGLAND EVEN EUROPEAN !

The myth of child prostitution

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         Child abuse

Educating Americans on human trafficking 00:54

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By Malika Saada Saar

 

Updated 12:41 PM ET, Wed July 29, 2015

• Malika Saada Saar: More focus needed on "buyers" in child trafficking

• Buyers of sex with underage girls are rarely arrested, writer says

Malika Saada Saar is the executive director of Rights4Girls, a human rights organization working to eradicate child sex trafficking in the United States. The views expressed are the writer's own.

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(CNN)Last week saw the premiere of "Children for Sale: The Fight to End Human Trafficking," which exposes the hidden realities of child sex trafficking in the United States. It's a powerful documentary. But there's even more to the story.

While I watched, I thought of many of the young girls I have come across through my work fighting child sex trafficking, girls who have been bought and sold for sex, and whose real names and lives remain unknown. I thought of Camille, a girl I met last week who was sold to adult men, repeatedly raped and yet arrested for prostitution at the age of 15. I thought about Michelle, whose trafficker tattooed his name onto her cheek to make it clear that she was his property.

As "Children for Sale" highlights, these children's stories of sexual violence and trafficking in America are not much different than in nations such as India, Cambodia or Nigeria. Indeed, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, there are estimated to be at least 100,000 American children trafficked for sex each year. They are abducted or lured by traffickers who prey on their trust. They are routinely raped, beaten into submission, and when they try to run away, the traffickers will often torture or gang rape them. Or both. Many of these children are supposed to be cared for in our foster care system.

communities the child interacts with.