Change Human Trafficking

What do you see in this picture? This is a picture of a pregnant girl around the age of 16 in Canada that has been pimped out from Craigslist’s. Pimps as you see will do anything to get what they want. They don’t care if they are hurting other people. They put girls out even if they are pregnant. Some of these young women are getting pregnant at the age of 16 or maybe even younger. I think the reason why the young girls do this is because they don’t feel loved, or they might have problems at home and they just want to feel like someone loves them even though they are getting treated badly. What some of these girls might not realize is human trafficking is also modern day slavery. Did you know that 2.5 million people from 127 different countries are being trafficked around the world? In the Department of Justice, there were 1,229 human trafficking incidents in the United States from January 2007- September 2008. Each year about 17,500 individuals are brought into the United States and held against their will as victims of human trafficking. Out of these incidents, 83 percent were sex trafficking cases. Also between the years 2007-2008 more than 30 percent of trafficking cases were from children being forced to have sex with strangers.1.2 Million children are trafficked each year. I think that Craigslist’s should see what people are putting on their web site because by checking they might be able to make a difference and save a life. Human trafficking is wrong people that do it need to look at the future and whoever put them down or anything they need to prove them wrong. They can have a better life and I want to help make these numbers go down.