Global Research, April 24, 2019
The Rutherford
Institute 23 April 2019
Region: USA
“Children are being targeted and sold
for sex in America every day.”—John Ryan, National Center for Missing &
Exploited Children
Children, young girls—some as young
as 9 years old—are
being bought and sold for sex in America. The average age for a young woman
being sold for sex is now 13 years old.
This is America’s dirty little
secret.
Sex trafficking—especially when it
comes to the buying and selling of young girls—has become big business in
America, the fastest
growing business in
organized crime and the second
most-lucrative commodity traded illegally after drugs and guns.
As investigative journalist Amy
Fine Collins notes,
“It’s become more lucrative
and much safer to sell malleable teens than drugs or guns. A pound of heroin or an AK-47 can be retailed once,
but a young girl can be sold 10 to 15 times a day—and a ‘righteous’ pimp
confiscates 100 percent of her earnings.”
Consider this: every two
minutes, a child is exploited in the sex industry.
According to USA Today, adults
purchase children for sex at least 2.5 million times a year in the United States.
Who buys a child for sex? Otherwise
ordinary men from
all walks of life.
“They could be
your co-worker, doctor, pastor or spouse,” writes journalist Tim Swarens, who
spent more than a year investigating the sex trade in America.
