Sex trafficking

A small 16 year old girl with a black eye enters a hotel room where the man who solicited her is waiting. At 6’3” and two hundred forty pounds, the man was easily able to force himself upon the young, injured, and fearful female. After using her like a product, the man gave the girl $300 and she left the hotel room to return to her trafficker. The man in the hotel room is Lawrence Taylor, the NFL Hall of Fame linebacker who led the New York Giants to victory twice at the Super Bowl. Not only was Taylor a successful defender on the field, but he was successfully defended by his legal counsel as well and the court sentenced him to only thirty days in jail and registration as a Level 1 sex offender for buying sex with the child.

I wish I could tell you that this story is the exception, but it’s not. Taylor’s meager sentencing showcases one instance of a widespread failure to enforce laws against buyers that is allowing the market for sex with children to persist unabated. Buyers are the men who provide something of value, like money, drugs, or a place to sleep, in exchange for a sex act with a child. The collective decisions of individual buyers to exploit children generate the market force fueling the sex industry – the demand. Permissive attitudes towards exchanging money for sex with a child must be challenged. Stronger laws must be enacted to combat the demand for commercial sex and law enforcement and prosecutors must enforce them. http://humantraffickingsearch.net/wp/demanding-justice/
There are more stories like this all across America that have yet to be found out. Sex trafficking in the 2nd major crime in the world and the laws that are set out are pathetic and don't protect the women subject to these horrors, nor give harsh enough sentences. Even if the women are rescued there is nothing set in place to do anything for them. We are Americans who fight for the liberty of nations and yet we do not see the liberties taken away in our own back yard. It is time for this sleeping giant called America to awaken once more and put an end to this social injustice. It starts with us. Are we willing to fight for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness once more? I am. I hope you are too.