"The Super Bowl is one of America's largest sporting events, and also one of the largest sex-trafficking events. Thousands of girls, many under-aged, will be brought to Indiana for the game on Feb. 5"
http://www.christianpost.com/news/super-..."Theresa Flores, a sex trafficking victim when she was 15, and her group Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution plan to distribute thousands of bars of soap to area hotels before the Super Bowl. The bars will include a trafficking hotline number as well as information to educate staff on recognizing victims. / Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution"
http://www.indystar.com/article/20120131...Is there anything we can do? That is the question many ask, when they view this tragedy remotely on their TV or Computer screens... yet to many it is a rhetorical question, as if to say there is nothing we can do. Many more disagree! Such are those promoting the "I'm not buying it" campaign... some of those who have survived being abducted and sold into modern slavery, know that everyone is looking for a way out! The stories are horrific, noting the average life expectancy after being sold into the sex-trade is only 7 years! Laws aren't enough to defend victims and rescue those already trapped... it is going to take a change of heart, and a change of behavior, if we will ever see a change in reality.
The campaign appeals to the sensibility of compassion and honor, of those contemplating purchasing an abducted girl for their temporary pleasure. These lives are destroyed for mere dollars... as disposable souls for sexual addictions. Those who abuse and exploit these children for money, don't see them as people, rather as a commodity to be traded or disposed of. One of the ads rightly asks the question...
"How did we get here?" Many sexual addicts probably never thought that for their addiction, they would purchase another human, for mere minutes of temporary pleasure... only for them to be handed back to their slaughterer and disposed of.
Many also, cannot continue with this abuse and commit suicide.
Somewhere somehow, men need to be men, and stand up for the vulnerable. Looking in the mirror at a coward and sexual predator, cannot be that satisfying! There is help. But in order to curb this trend of deviance destroying precious lives, a choice has to be made, and supported by communities. I counsel some who have been perpetrators, and some ask if it is possible for them to change... my answer is yes! Every day that goes by that these individuals seek help, instead of gratification is a good day... for potential victims. In my experience, there is nothing more powerful than purpose; and if someone regardless on which side of the issue can see their purpose and hope...
we will go a long way in seeing the demand for slavery stopped. Nothing is impossible, and change can come from the most unlikely places...
some of the biggest offenders can become the biggest defenders.
"The 'I'm Not Buying it" campaign is a national campaign to raise awareness for the human trafficking of American children. Please watch for more 'I'm Not Buying It' campaign materials coming soon."
http://www.traffick911.com/page/im-not-b..."The U.S. State Department estimates that as many as 12.3 million adults and children are victims of forced labor or prostitution worldwide, and for those plying the trade, the Super Bowl is big business."
http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/local/mar...I'm Not Buying It by Nate Bernard
http://www.demandabolition.org/why-deman...