News reports: "The LAPD seeks other victims of alleged child pimp"
www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/oct/04/lapd-seeks-other-victims-of-alleged-child-pimp/
Police say there may be dozens of victims of a man they suspect of kidnapping two teenage girls and forcing them into prostitution.
According to San Diego Deputy District Attorney Gretchen Means," human trafficking is the new crack". Gang members are jumping into the human trafficking of minors because it's safer than drugs and very profitable. Human trafficking is just behind the drug trade for profits worldwide.
Means says, "a gang member is much safer driving around with a couple of girls and a laptop in the back seat as opposed to driving around with drugs". This is a growth business for gangs and they are recruiting young women and teenagers from local neighborhoods. This is not the importation of women from other counties but children recruited from our own communities.
Children are extremely vulnerable to recruitment and victimization. They can be runaways, escaping from abusive homes. They can be homeless living on the street or just looking for work.
Minors can be recruited by other victims, friends, family, employment agencies and modeling agencies. They can be recruited on the internet, by romance or seduction and even by gang members. Children are often recruited from juvenile camps, shelters and foster homes
Raising awareness of human trafficking and the trafficking of children for the sex trade is the key to helping these children.
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