It started out as a normal day for Savitri, an unsuspecting 13-year-old girl, who was abducted carrying a flask of tea to her father. She was aggressively pulled into a moving jeep by five men, one of which lived in the very same village as her. This is a common occurrence all around the world, where about eighty-three children disappear every hour. For many children like Savitri, a perfectly normal day gets turned around in just mere seconds. In fact, about 2,000 children go missing all over the world each day. Even worse, 43% of the children who have been trafficked have never been found. How does this happen to innocent children? Unfortunately, it all boils down to the fact that the police are not doing their jobs of trying to find and help …show more content…
Trafficking isn’t a topic that is thought to have an economic gain, but it is actually estimated to bring about 150 billion dollars annually. Trafficking is one of the most profitable businesses in the world, and in some cities, trafficking is considered an industry. Tenancingo, a city in Mexico, uses the profits from trafficking for their economy, and without it, they would be very economically unstable. While trafficking may have a great deal of economic gain, people need to stop thinking of trafficking as an industry and a profitable business and start thinking of it as a serious issue. Baylee Molloy, a researcher and writer for the Institute in Faith, Work, and Economics says, “Human trafficking attempts to strip individuals of their God given dignity and should no longer be tolerated as an industry in the global economy” (tifwe.org). The sooner people stop thinking of trafficking as an industry, the sooner police will attempt to find the trafficked children, and trafficking itself would decrease. While trafficking may have an economic gain for many countries, it is still a problem that police need to work on