Friday, February 13, 2009

Tune in on Sunday

For an MSNBC special on underage sex trafficking in the U.S. "Sex Slaves: The Teen Trade" will air at 10 p.m. ET on Sunday, February 15.
MSNBC.com also posted a story about Theresa Flores, a woman who was trafficked and regularly exploited at 15 years old while still living at home with her parents. Some stats on Theresa's website, TraffickFree.com, might be even more shocking:
  • The FBI calls northwest Ohio one of the top recruiting locations for underage prostitution.
  • Federal investigators recently charged 31 men and women with herding teens, including at least nine girls from northwest Ohio across state lines as sex slaves.
The stories continue to come out, across the U.S. as the spotlight gets turned up. Let's hope that soon there's nowhere dark left to hide.

2 comments:

Psalm:36:9 said...

So Blogger is being a bit funky, but that's okay because it just drives home the "illumination" theme. :) If you want to see the stats you can highlight them with your mouse.

The day is coming!
Emily

Jennifer said...

I had no idea this existed. Even better is it's increased exposure. Great post Emily!