Despite the fact that many of America’s children are being lured into this horrible system, little is being done to prevent and save them. Just like the women who fall victim, these children are also lured in with false promises. Out of all the individuals who are victims, 50% of them are children under the age of 18 (nanozine.org). There is no strict guideline who will become a victim or not but the victims span is a wide age range from 1 to 18 years old. Sex trafficking victims range up to roughly 25 years old most often started as young as 14. (ark of hope). There has been cases of 5 year old becoming sex trafficking victims but it can even happen as young as 1 years old. America is unaware of the signs and the children who are risk. Saul …show more content…
I Had nothing. My pimp was the first person in my life to buy me a birthday cake.” The victims often time are searching for some form of love in their life and that is the reason why many women call their pimps daddy, because they are the only male figure in their life. The number one way they lure these children is in the simplest way possible, charm. In an article by Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje she talks about how “Being smooth-talking and nice is their most disarming tactic,” said Nilda Castellanos of the Freedom Youth Project Foundation, a local anti-sex-trafficking group formed in 2010. “That's how these predators manipulate their victims and exploit their weaknesses — through compliments, promises, gifts and other things. The fact is most kids go willingly.” She understands how the littlest things have the most meaning and impact. When people think of sex trafficking of children, they think of children just being snatched off the street but more often than not many of the victims go pretty willingly with the unknow sex traffickers. In a bus terminal in new york the pimps wait for runways to get off the us, then make their move. The terminal police look out for these girls because the “Pimps, recruiters, they sit here, they watch,” Martinez said, referring to the Greyhound ticket