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Feb. 9, 2006 — Fifteen-year-old “Debbie” is the middle child in a close-knit Air Force family from suburban Phoenix, and a straight-A student — the last person most of us would expect to be forced into the seamy world of sex trafficking.

But Debbie, which is not her real name, is one of thousands of young American girls who authorities say have been abducted or lured from their normal lives and made into sex slaves. While many Americans have heard of human trafficking in other parts of the world — Thailand, Cambodia, Latin America and eastern Europe, for example — few people know it happens here in the United States.

The FBI estimates that well over 100,000 children and young women are trafficked in America today. They range in age from 9 to 19, with the
average age being 11.

And many victims are no longer just runaways, or kids who’ve been abandoned. Many of them are from what would be considered “good” families, who are lured or coerced by clever predators, say experts. “These predators are particularly adept at reading children, at reading kids, and knowing what their vulnerabilities are,” said FBI Deputy Assistant Director, Chip Burrus, who started the Lost Innocence project, which specializes in child- and teen-sex trafficking. [More...]

Also, Join us as we interview Somanjana C.Bhattacharya of Love146.org she is over the Public Relations & Communications Division… Soma has offered to be on our special guest on CHW Friday’s, show dedicated to: End Internet Trafficking and the Coalition that has been started to stop this on Craigslist and other legitimate business, that are facilitating these types of crimes…

Please Join us this Friday, 14th 2008 on our CyberHood Watch live radio show, and ask Soma your most pressing questions…

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