The Pros And Cons Of Human Trafficking

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Human trafficking has grown to be a multi-billion-dollar enterprise affecting every country in the world. Katariina Rosenblatt’s recruitment happened similar to other helpless people following a simple stay with her family at a hotel in Miami Beach. This survivor advocate conveys her dark experiences into a positive outlet through a nonprofit organization essential for prosecutors to address a vital issue concerning trafficking responses. Treatment approaches does necessitate, “police and judges to look at the wider context and consider them victims of sex exploitation. [For instance,] South Florida is the third-busiest area for sex trafficking in the United States, the Department of Justice says” (Hauser & Mariano, 2013, para. 2). On the whole, …show more content…

Kat Rosenblatt on the great trauma haunting her after escaping (i.e., between 13 to 17 years old) a child prostitution ring– more than once in secret. A history of domestic violence led to exploitation of her low self-esteem at the hands of a confident young woman and pimp. Another situation was economic disadvantages because of a single-parent family rooted in a household normalizing maltreatment. They still, “made her feel like family, before leading her into a situation that might be too vile to put in a major motion picture — listening to her story,…In short, her virginity was sold for $550, and that's just the start” (San Francisco Globe, 2015, para. 2). Some encounters involve false friendship, threats, drugs, and abuse kept her in a deleterious cycle. Wariness had changed social interactions since an attitude of insecurity and loneliness in need of attention made the perfect target out of her. In fact, the emotional consequences quickly brought her to search for religious intervention in the form of a …show more content…

One example is the police force raiding brothels to only treat people in the commercial sex-trade as criminals. Rather than incarceration, counseling services should be made available to these previously enslaved victims. These individuals have been subject to double victimization, by traffickers and security personnel. Under those circumstances, cooperation equally demands, “victims’ attorneys and law enforcement should work together so that information can be gathered from the victim in an appropriate way. Investigators and prosecutors should know the respective state and federal rules on victims’ rights” (U.S. Department of Justice, 2015, para.