Demand fuels the commercial sex industry. Without buyers seeking paid sex with children, traffickers would not have a market to sell young children for sexual exploitation. To achieve significant deterrence, severe penalties must be in place to adequately punish the crime of purchasing sex with a child. This dynamic is illustrated in the case below. […]
Children of the Corn: The Horrors of Sex Trafficking in the Midwest
Corn, plains, tornadoes…and more corn. These are the first things that come to mind when some people think about the Midwest. Sex trafficking would, in my opinion, be the LAST thing to pop in their heads. I grew up in Nebraska, and I would never have thought that this atrocity was taking place in my […]