Child Sex Slavery

Today there are at least 20,000 slaves under the age of 18 in the United States. According to the Department of Justice, the average age of these children is 13 years old. Eighty percent of these children are girls and 80% of those girls are sexual slaves like “Amber”. The life expectancy of girls like “Amber” is 7 – 10 years from the time of their abduction and the start of their enslavement.

“Amber” and countless other girls experience on a daily basis:

• Rape
• Assault
• Neglect
• Starvation
• Torture
• False imprisonment
• Exploitation
• Drugging
• Emotional, physical, and mental abuse

Slaveholders will send “testers” in to pretend to rescue the girl. If she engages with the tester she will be beaten. At some point the girl gives up and becomes resigned to her new life – her hell on earth. Survival mode will kick in and she will quickly become hardened, disconnected, hopeless, angry, and isolated – trusting no one, which is the slaveholder’s goal.

Why Don’t These Girls Try to Escape?

There are many different methods these slaveholders use to manipulate and control their slaves. These impressionable and dependent children want to be accepted by someone. The slaveholder is the only person they really know in this new reality. The slaveholder manipulates the girls by telling them he loves them, buying them gifts, and taking them to exciting places in order to keep them submissive. This produces a Stockholm Syndrome where the victim actually thinks they are loved – thus skewing their concept of love and keeping them under the slaveholder’s control.

What Is Our Government Doing About Slavery?

The answer to that question is, “Not much”. Typically, the recovery rate is less than 1% of the actual trafficked population. What happens to a child like “Amber” when she is rescued? The Department of Justice has confirmed that care facilities specifically designed to support these trafficked children can give shelter to less than 100 of them. F.B.I. policy is to place these rescued victims into juvenile hall which sends the message to these children that they are criminals. The cost of a child in juvenile hall is $250 per day. Government agencies cannot give these children what they need most – love.

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