Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Host clubs and human trafficking

Your mission, should you choose to accept it…

How would you go about seeing kingdom change in this cultural nexus?



And as a follow-up, this article is really confusing to me.

So in 2013, 22,335 calls were logged about trafficking (out of how many unreported?).  Since 2011, there have been 17 convictions.

"Currently, six suspected sex traffickers are in jail, and grand juries are investigating three cases involving multiple suspects. The number of sex-trafficking cases "has picked up, definitely," Correa said."

I must be missing something.  Are they actually patting themselves on the back for an increase in arrests?  A whopping six people in jail?!

Later, "Traffickers prey on the vulnerable, and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youths' struggle with their identity and often hostile communities make them perfect victims, Sanchez said.  "LGBT populations are highly susceptible," [...] The number of reported cases of transgender victims is small in the Southwest. In 2013, only four cases in Texas involved transgender victims, according to the Polaris Project. In New Mexico, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center received no calls reporting transgender victims."

Highly susceptible.  Transgendered trafficking made up 4 out of 2,236 cases of trafficking in Texas in 2013.  Um, say what now?

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