 | Human trafficking: A parent's nightmareRonin | 10 April, 2011 at 12:05 pm | Categories: cover-up, Crime, Human trafficking, Slavery | URL: http://wp.me/p1NPg-70X |
This is one side of the immigration debate that does not get enough attention. Illegal's are little more than targets to criminal organizations. Often the guilty are members of their own community. Gangs of human traffickers are organized and in business every single day.
This issue needs to be mentioned every time the call for open borders and blanket amnesty raises its head. Support illegal's and you are directly supporting the networks that prey on them.
The article does a very good job of describing the issue, what is not clear is if the child mentioned has fallen victim to traffickers, it appears that she has. I sincerely hope that she has not. For those of you that believe, say a prayer for this child and the 20 million others like her thought to exist in this world.
You can help save a child by highlighting why we need to target criminal hiding inside the illegal communities. You can also expose all the so called feminists, social activists, community organizers and civil rights activists that turn a blind eye to this problem. By doing so they passively support it and passive support is still support.
By Diane Turbyfill, 10 April, 2011, Gaston Gazette
Karla Lopez never required her teenage daughter to work. She only wanted her to be a good student and focus on her future.
Now Lopez fears her 16 year old might be working to stay alive, a victim of human trafficking.
Lopez's daughter, Stephany Pineda, dashed out the door Dec. 14, late for school. She made it to the bus stop but never arrived at Lincolnton High School. A family friend called Lopez and told her Pineda was spotted riding off in a car with two men.
That was nearly four months ago.
Since her daughter's disappearance, Lopez has learned a lot about human trafficking. She's afraid Stephany might be a victim of the crime and that she may never see her again.
A community targeted
The number of Latino victims of human trafficking continues to climb, according to Nancy Newman, director of AVID (Assault & Victimization Intervention & Deterrence).
Predators working in the human trafficking trade often prey on the immigrant community because they see them as easy targets.
Language barriers, cultural differences and fear often keep people in the Hispanic community from reporting incidents to police, or at least delay the process, said Newman.
AVID works with interpreters and local police to make victims feel more at ease with the process, she said.
"Our local police have really worked hard to bridge the gap for them," she said.
But for people used to a different type of police presence, trust doesn't come easy.
Many of these girls and women are snatched right off the street, as Lopez suspects her daughter was. Others enter the U.S. looking for a better life, often thinking they're going through the proper channels, only to end up enslaved.
-The reality is without insiders supporting this madness; the enslavement of children would be impossible. For each child taken, there are a host of people that play a role, even more ignore it. Someone knows where each of them are. Read more of this post
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