According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, child sex trafficking includes the “recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining or advertising of a minor child for the purpose of a commercial sex act.” Of the roughly 24-thousand endangered runaways reported last year, estimates are that one in six were victims of sex trafficking. Often, traffickers are family members or family friends, such as parents who’ve lost custody or guardians looking to profit.
Twenty-five more trafficked children have been recovered by authorities on Tuesday.
The FBI and local Georgia authorities recently recovered nearly 40 missing children, many of whom are likely victims of child sex-trafficking.
A plane is most free not when I drive it, but when I fly it. That’s what is designed for. The same is true of human sexuality. We are not most free when we do whatever we want, but only when we are what God created us to be.
On Friday, the Department of Justice shut down a major prostitution and sex trafficking website and indicted the website’s owner.
