Breaking Down the Alarming Realities of Child Sex Trafficking in America—Jaco Booyens
Just how widespread is sex trafficking in America?
Why is it so incredibly difficult for the victims to ever truly recover and have healthy relationships?
How are sex trafficking and pornography connected?
And, what can we do to protect our children from sex trafficking?
This is American Thought Leaders 🇺🇸, and I’m Jan Jekielek. In this episode, we’ll sit down with Jaco Booyens. The brother of a sex trafficking survivor, Booyens is the founder of SHAREtogether, which combats child sex trafficking. He is also the producer and director of the feature film on the subject, 8 DAYS.
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US Foster Care System a Breeding Ground for Human Trafficking
Posted by Michelle Lillie | 2013 | Child Trafficking, Foster Care, Sex Trafficking | 0
Half of all human trafficking victims are minors, and slaverynomore.org statesthat 70
percent of these minors are children in the foster care system. Foster
Focus Magazine, an online publication devoted to the US foster care
system, places
that number even higher at 80 percent. In a report
by the state government of
Connecticut, 86 percent of victims rescued from domestic minor sex
trafficking in
2011 had been involved with child welfare services in some manner and may had
been victimized while in foster care or residential placement.
These statistics are especially disturbing since there are an estimated
300,000
children involved in underage domestic sex trafficking in the United
States which
means 210,000 to 258,000 children have been failed by the very system that
was created to protect and provide for them.
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Stopping the Foster Care to Child Trafficking Pipeline
10/29/2013 05:59 pm ET Updated Jan 23, 2014
The crisis of child trafficking and exploitation in the U.S. is finally capturing our attention. But a critical part of the story has not been told. Most of the children who are being bought and sold for sex in our nation are foster care children. In the states that are tracking these children the following, devastating numbers reveal that:
• In 2013, 60 percent of the child sex trafficking victims recovered as part of a FBI nationwide raid from over 70 cities were children from foster care or group homes.
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• In 2012, Connecticut reported 88 child victims of sex trafficking. Eighty-six were child welfare involved, and most reported abuse while in foster care or residential placement.
• In 2012, Los Angeles County, California reported that of the 72 commercially sexually exploited girls in their Succeed Through Achievement and Resilience (STAR) Court Program, 56 were child-welfare involved.
• In 2007, New York City identified 2,250 child victims of trafficking. Seventy-five percent of those experienced some contact with the child welfare system, mostly in the context of abuse and neglect proceedings.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stopping-the-foster-care-_b_4170483
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Without family, U.S. children in foster care easy prey for human traffickers
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Children removed from unfit families and put in foster care are terrifyingly vulnerable to being trafficked, a fact that Amy Andrews knows all too well.
She spun in and out of her abusive family home into the child welfare system, starting when she was 10 years old. By 14, she was selling sex on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard, working for traffickers who exploited her naivete and need for attention.
“I’m loved, I’m wanted, I’m cared for, I’m given everything I want and no one blames me,” Andrews said of being trafficked. “And I’m being sexually abused, but I can overlook that.
“Nobody wanted me. This set me up to be vulnerable and needy,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Hundreds of thousands of U.S. children live in foster care, prey to predator sex traffickers who may find their young victims at bus stops, shopping malls or street corners as well as on social media and online chat rooms.
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5 Reasons Foster Youth Become Human Trafficking Victims
Why are foster youth more likely to be trafficked and what can you do to help?
In 2013, the FBI conducted a nationwide raid in 70 cities. That night, 60% of the youth they rescued from sex traffickers were missing from foster care or from group homes.
In 2007, a study of 2,250 child victims of trafficking revealed that 75% of the rescued youth had been in foster care.
In essence, human trafficking is the sale of a person for sex or labor in exchange for something of value, such as money, protection, or shelter. Traffickers exploit the vulnerabilities of others (like poverty, trauma, abuse, or homelessness) for financial profit. For an introduction to the issue, read the Human Trafficking 101 series.
Children and youth in foster care are the most vulnerable demographic to human trafficking in the United States.
How can this be? Why is it that foster youth are becoming victims at such a disproportionate rate to their peers?
The answer is that much of the reason that youth in care are victimized has nothing to do with the child welfare system itself. Youth are often vulnerable because of the reasons they were referred to child welfare in the first place.
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