Are We Doing Enough?

Over and over I have said how we need to do more to help these victims but what is the government and other people doing to help these girls? I have found that victims can go to special facilities that will help girls overcome their fear of going back into the world. This is their rehab. This is what helps them feel safe again and this is how the get to reconnect with their families year=after being aways for so long, but too many do not get to experience this sensation. Many girls do get treated from being drugged and brainwashed and get help for all the trauma they have endured, but again too many do not get to go home and are killed or left to die for. So the big question is are we doing enough?

These girls getting treated what are we really doing to help these girls? Yes we have places where they can go to get help but what are we doing to prevent them from getting trafficked? Many protocols are being put into place but the biggest thing we are doing to help this problem is to raise awareness and help people see that this is a big problem. With raising awareness we can help girls who can be targeted be safer when they are out on the streets and help people see that they can do so much with just helping spread the word about sex trafficking. Also people are strengthening partnerships and by doing this we can spread the word faster and easier. The more coordination is done with this problem the better.

Just raising awareness obviously isn't going to solve the problem completely but it is a start and with every big revolution and big step in peace started with one small step. This step is raising awareness.




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Anna's Story

Anna was a twelve year old girl when she ran away from home and not long after was she grabbed by a trafficker named Ted. This happens to many young girls, some just walking home get taken, others made to think they can trust a man and the forced into trafficking. Many girls in the us and all over world get their lives taken away from them with no choice. This happened to Anna. When she was grabbed off the street she never agreed to get into the trafficker's car he forced her to get in. He drove for a while and made Anna leave all of what she knew. Ted regularly beat Anna and made her have sex with random truckers who would pay to have sex with Anna. "One time when I wanted to leave, he filled up the bathtub with water, poured a bottle of gin into it and made me sit in it with open sores. More than once, he would hold a gun to my head and tell me I had to do sex like he wanted for as long as he wanted or he would blow my head off." This was something that Anna shared. As you can see traffickers do not care the age of their victims all they care about is how much money they can make off of one girl before she is no longer "good" meaning no longer able to have sex with men due to the fact that they are either over drugged or close to dying and even have diseases. So many girls try to run away but are too afraid because they know they can never leave the hell they live in. Anna is not the only girl this has happened to there are many other girls that share their stories so people can see that we need to do more to help these victims.



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