In the aftermath following the deaths of two Southern California young women, Amber Dubois and Chelsea King, there has been renewed focus on the issue of violence against women, especially young women.
Human trafficking is a particularly egregious form of violence. Unfortunately, human trafficking is on the rise. I have previously written on the issue of human trafficking and its pernicious effect on its young victims - be they male or female.
At a recent public forum, held in Oxnard, California, expert Susan Bissell spoke about human trafficking and sexual exploitation. Ms. Bissell is intimately familiar with the subject of sexual exploitation; she survived sexual abuse by a family member and ran away as a teenager, only to be sexually exploited by an employer.
Speaking in front of an audience of about 65 people, Ms. Bissell said, “Sexual exploitation and abuse of children is becoming more common.” Ms. Bissell then added, that the Internet is partially responsible for the increase number of incidents of sexual exploitation of children.
To read the full article, please go here: Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Children Is On The Rise
I have stated it before, and I will repeat it again: as a society we simply cannot stand idly by while our society’s most vulnerable members are being used and exploited. Children are our society’s our future. If we continue to turn a blind eye to the abuse, exploitation and mistreatment of children we will be contributing to the destruction of our species.
For more information on the magnitude of the problem and on ways that you can help children, please go here: Silver Braid Project
Let’s make this a safer and more joyful world for future generations.
Thank you.
1 comment:
hi hi deb
thank you for your article ! you are right ! that becomes more and more common and often even in france we hear stories like that about abuse childrens or teenagers sometimes too ! that is terrible ! i do think that our societies need to settle a really policy about that and to fight against it ! i am not sure that we well consider these "men" who abuse of the childrens ! when they go to prison i feel that they must be considered very different from the others prisoners ! they need a specific treatment and we shoudn't let them go and leave prison ! maybe find others ways because there is lot of "recidive" , that means that they do it again ! so i believe that the policy is not adapted !
i don't know what happend in america and if it is different !
deb please let me know that !
we have too to act before that happens and find ways too to secure our childrens even if that is very hard ! deb gave some advice about that so i invite you to read it again ! maybe deb you could write it again because that was very good ! what is terrible is that whatever the age , that can happen ! as parents we have to act to protect as we can our childrens and we also have to pray for all these childrens and teenagers who were abused ! amber and chelsea were very nice girls !
deb thank you so much
see you
arc
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