Monday, 25 September 2017

Human Trafficking Resources CA Counseling Children

By Donna Phillips


While the slave trade involves adults and children, most often there are fewer adults. As such, most human trafficking resources CA are aimed towards younger individuals. Still, there are local and national organizations which work to counsel adults effected by the sex industry or slave trade in North America.

A number of these individuals are under the age of 18 and are still considered children. For example, there are at least twenty thousand slaves under the age of 18 in the United States. The average of which is approximately thirteen years old.

While the life expectancy of girls in this trade range from 7 to 14 years from the date of abduction, there are a few lucky ones. Whether found after being dumped, or having been able to escape, these individuals often need a great deal of counseling, love and support before being able to return to daily life.

The abuses these children are exposed to on a daily basis are horrific, especially for someone so young. Whether being assaulted, raped, imprisoned, tortured, drugged or experiencing severe emotional and physical abuse, it is often too much for one to bear. As such, there are often a high number of suicides amongst those still in, as well as those whom have escaped the trade.

One organization that of the FACESS or Freeing American Children from Exploitation and Sexual Slavery is based in California its trying to help. Whereas, there are also local organization in the State whom are working to counsel those who have broken free from these bonds. In one case, there is an escapee who has become a therapist offering assistance to others who have found a way to freedom.

While a few have escaped these bonds, others still remain in the system without the capability of doing so. In many cases, the slave masters will send in a different person to attempt to get a child to escape, then when the child attempts to do so, punishment is given in the way of beatings or deprivation. After which, the child becomes leery of trusting anyone, even someone from a valid organization.

While some boys have been brought into the system, most often to teach the girls about sex, statistics show that the trade is 80% female, whether applying to adults or girls. As such, it is often female children whom are abducted or sold into the system. Whereas, at times the slave masters will bring in sons to work in the industry whether with or without consent of the male child.

In other cases, a child is abducted at an early age, often between the ages of one and three. After which, the slaveholder is the only one the child really knows and trust to provide care. For, the slaveholder will often provide a false sense of love though expensive gifts and by taking the children to expensive places in order to keep each as submissive as possible. Thus, the child has known no other real love in the world. As such, escape is a concept many may not understand, or even consider even when knowing they have been taken from a previous home.




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