Sexual abuse of minors; it seems like this egregious problem mostly related the third world countries. Despite to the common thoughts it is serious problem that America faces today. According to American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, child sexual abuse has been reported up to 80,000 times a year in. Of course, we have to understand that number is far greater in reality, since the most of the cases are remain unreported. Lack of awareness about child sexual abuse among American population allows this hideous crime to increase its rate.
There are many reasons of this evil for of crime, but I want to discuss three factors that contribute to sexual abuse of minors. They are parents’ unawareness to give children to someone’s care, mental illness problems, and child sex trafficking.
In most cases of sexual molestation, children know their predators and trust them. Usually offenders have
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Supply and demand here work in the same progressive rate. A big money and limitations of law system are involved in here. Kimberly Kofrla analyses the importance of this problem and states, “Many people remain unaware that more U.S. citizens are victims of sex trafficking here than are foreign nations” (181). It may seem like a fact about faraway land for many Americans but reality is just opposite. According to different researches, victims of sex trafficking are estimated from 100,000 to 325,000 children every year. “The average at which children are being lured into commercial sexual exploitation is between 11 and 14, although some are as young as five” (Kofrla 182). All of those children become sex slaves in different ways; some were kidnapped, or sold by their own parents, others run away from home or simply did not have one. This business especially popular during big sport events such as Super Bowl, criminals bring their “slaves” there to sell them to the sport