Last night I arrived in Marco Island to speak at their 34th Annual Prayer Breakfast. I had dinner with two fascinating couples who had worked hard to make the event a reality and during dinner the subject got around to my sex trafficking post yesterday. They seemed aghast to learn of the ruthlessness and evil cruelty of this industry and one of the gentlemen told me he had no idea that this was going on. Another remarked that she guessed they were just caught up in their own little world and had not paid attention to it.
No, it is difficult to pay attention if the media ignores it, considering 99% of our populace obtains their knowledge of what is going on in the world from those people. For some reason our illustrious press seems to ignore the truth about this horrific blight to humanity, and if you desire to find anything out about this problem you must conduct research.
At the Jesus Alliance, we are doing our homework and trying to create awareness as a necessary first step to doing something about problems like this. As someone has rightly said, knowledge is power. By having knowledge, we are better prepared to unite together and work hard to do something other than shake our heads to end this nightmare.
I advise you to go to this link: https://www.factretriever.com/human-trafficking-facts
to understand more about this problem.
It is too lengthy to list all the facts about trafficking in this post, but I’ve included some of the most poignant below:
- There are more human slaves in the world today than ever before in history.
- There are an estimated 27 million adults and 13 million children around the world who are victims of human trafficking.
- Human traffickers often use a Sudanese phrase “use a slave to catch slaves,” meaning traffickers send “broken-in girls” to recruit younger girls into the sex trade. Sex traffickers often train girls themselves, raping them and teaching them sex acts.
People are often trafficked for their organs
People are often trafficked for their organs
- Human trafficking not only involves sex and labor, but people are also trafficked for organ harvesting.
- An estimated 30,000 victims of sex trafficking die each year from abuse, disease, torture, and neglect. Eighty percent of those sold into sexual slavery are under 24, and some are as young as six years old.
- A human trafficker can earn 20 times what he or she paid for a girl. Provided the girl was not physically brutalized to the point of ruining her beauty, the pimp could sell her again for a greater price because he had trained her and broken her spirit, which saves future buyers the hassle. A 2003 study in the Netherlands found that, on average, a single sex slave earned her pimp at least $250,000 a year.
- Although human trafficking is often a hidden crime and accurate statistics are difficult to obtain, researchers estimate that more than 80% of trafficking victims are female. Over 50% of human trafficking victims are children.
- Human trafficking is the only area of transnational crime in which women are significantly represented — as victims, as perpetrators, and as activists fighting this crime.
- Most human trafficking in the United States occurs in New York, California, and Florida.
- Sex traffickers often recruit children because not only are children more unsuspecting and vulnerable than adults, but there is also a high market demand for young victims. Traffickers target victims on the telephone, on the Internet, through friends, at the mall, and in after-school programs.
- Women are trafficked to the U.S. largely to work in the sex industry (including strip clubs, peep and touch shows, massage parlors that offer sexual services, and prostitution). They are also trafficked to work in sweatshops, domestic servitude, and agricultural work.
- Sex traffickers use a variety of ways to “condition” their victims, including subjecting them to starvation, rape, gang rape, physical abuse, beating, confinement, threats of violence toward the victim and victim’s family, forced drug use, and shame.
- Family members will often sell children and other family members into slavery; the younger the victim, the more money the trafficker receives. For example, a 10-year-old named Gita was sold into a brothel by her aunt. The now 22-year-old recalls that when she refused to work, the older girls held her down and stuck a piece of cloth in her mouth so no one would hear her scream as she was raped by a customer. She would later contract HIV.
- Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises because it holds relatively low risk with high profit potential. Criminal organizations are increasingly attracted to human trafficking because, unlike drugs, humans can be sold repeatedly.
- Human trafficking is estimated to surpass the drug trade in less than five years. Journalist Victor Malarek reports that it is primarily men who are driving human trafficking, specifically trafficking for sex.
- In approximately 54% of human trafficking cases, the recruiter is a stranger, and in 46% of the cases, the recruiters know the victim. Fifty-two percent of human trafficking recruiters are men, 42% are women, and 6% are both men and women.
Human trafficking earns $9 billion to $31.6 billion globally
Human trafficking earns $9 billion to $31.6 billion globally
- Human trafficking around the globe is estimated to generate a profit of anywhere from $9 billion to $31.6 billion. Half of these profits are made in industrialized countries.
- Some human traffickers recruit handicapped young girls, such as those suffering from Down Syndrome, into the sex industry.
- According to the FBI, a large human-trafficking organization in California in 2008 not only physically threatened and beat girls as young as 12 to work as prostitutes, they also regularly threatened them with witchcraft.
- Human trafficking is a global phenomenon that is fueled by poverty and gender discrimination.
- Women and girls from racial minorities in the U.S. are disproportionately recruited by sex traffickers in the U.S.
- The Sunday Telegraphin the U.K. reports that hundreds of children as young as six are brought to the U.K. as slaves each year.
- Japan is considered the largest market for Asian women trafficked for sex.
- Airports are often used by human traffickers to hold “slave auctions,” where women and children are sold into prostitution.
Pregnant women are increasingly targeted for human trafficking
Pregnant women are increasingly targeted for human trafficking
- Human traffickers are increasingly trafficking pregnant women for their newborns. Babies are sold on the black market, where the profit is divided between the traffickers, doctors, lawyers, border officials, and others. The mother is usually paid less than what is promised her, citing the cost of travel and creating false documents. A mother might receive as little as a few hundred dollars for her baby.
- The FBI estimates that over 100,000 children and young women are trafficked in America today. They range in age from nine to 19, with the average being age 11. Many victims are not just runaways or abandoned, but are from “good” families who are coerced by clever traffickers.
- Brazil and Thailand are generally considered to have the worst child sex trafficking records.
- Nearly 7,000 Nepali girls as young as nine years old are sold every year into India’s red-light district—or 200,000 in the last decade. Ten thousand children between the ages of six and 14 are in Sri Lanka brothels.
- Human trafficking victims face physical risks, such as drug and alcohol addiction, contracting STDs, sterility, miscarriages, forced abortions, vaginal and anal trauma, among others. Psychological effects include developing clinical depression, personality and dissociative disorders, suicidal tendencies, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome.
Africa’s AIDS epidemic has increased human trafficking rates
for orphaned children
Africa’s AIDS epidemic has increased human trafficking rates for orphaned children
- The AIDS epidemic in Africa has left many children orphaned, making them especially vulnerable to human trafficking.
- According to the U.S. State Department, human trafficking is one of the greatest human rights challenges of this century, both in the United States and around the world.
- Today, a slave costs about $90 on average worldwide.
Source – Fact Retriever
The reasons for this industry flourishing are first demand and second greed. There are people in this world, (primarily men) whose lusts transcend any sense of societal norms and morality. The Bible predicts this behavior in Matt. 24;12 Because of the multiplication of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.
Then there are those people who are willing to sell their souls to accumulate money. The Lord spoke to me one time and emphatically said three times “The world is ruled by money and not conviction.” The Bible is not silent on this subject, in 1 Timothy 6:10 it states: For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
I absolutely HATE the thought of some little kid being savaged by some man (or woman). These people need the Lord and I’d love to visit them IN PRISON to witness to them about Jesus.
As I think about some scared little 10 year old child dreading to see the door open and crazed men coming in to rape them, it makes my blood boil. I can only envision it, but the Lord is watching it and I imagine how it makes Him feel. It is not so difficult now to understand why a hell exists in God’s plan . . .
Lord I beg you to empower us to do something to stop this blight upon humanity. Help us to rid this planet of the moral filth and evil that surrounds us. Lord Jesus please forgive us for turning a blind eye to this problem for so long. Bless us and protect as we now move forward to fight for the children. Amen . . .
James 1:21
Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly receive the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
March 21 2017 – Click here to listen