Thread: American Football: Under-age sex trade booming at Super Bowl

American Football: Under-age sex trade booming at Super Bowl - Americas, World - The Independent


Thousands of young girls are trafficked by pimps cashing in on the biggest sports event in the US

By Mickey Goodman in Atlanta
Sunday, 6 February 2011

Pimps will traffic thousands of under-age prostitutes to Texas for today's Super Bowl, hoping to do business with men arriving for the big game with money to burn, child rights advocates said.

The country's largest sporting event, the game between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers will make the Dallas-Fort Worth area a magnet for business of all kinds, including the multimillion- dollar, under-age sex industry, said activists. Authorities are trying to combat the annual spike in trafficking of under-age girls that coincides with the game.

"The Super Bowl is one of the biggest human trafficking events in the United States," Greg Abbott, the attorney general for Texas, told a recent trafficking prevention meeting. Up to 300,000 girls between 11 and 17 are lured into the US sex industry annually, according to a 2007 report sponsored by the Department of Justice and written by the non-profit group Shared Hope International. Some 90 per cent of runaways and children whose parents force them to leave home fall into the trade and are often beaten, drugged, raped or imprisoned to force compliance, said the report.

Pimps tattoo girls with dollar signs or the word "Daddy", and take them to unfamiliar cities where they are more vulnerable.
"At previous Super Bowls, pimps hired cab drivers to turn their vehicles into mobile brothels," said Deena Graves, executive director of the child advocacy group Traffick911.
"We are expecting thousands of under-age domestic minors to be trafficked to the Super Bowl," said Nancy Rivard, founder of the non-profit Airline Ambassadors International. Non-profit groups working at the 2010 Super Bowl in Miami supplied the figure, she said.

Law enforcement agencies and advocacy groups rescued around 50 girls during the previous two Super Bowls, said Graves. Six were registered on the Center for Missing and Exploited Children website. One had been trafficked from Hawaii.
To fight the trade, authorities, child welfare advocates and the airline industry are collaborating. Representatives from American Airlines, Delta, United, Qantas and American Eagle are holding a training session to help them spot signs of trafficking. Rivard will also work with another 100 flight crews to distribute materials on flights.
Some 67,000 people signed a petition on Change.org Petitions – Online Petitions for Social Change opposing sex trafficking as part of a campaign by Traffick911 called "I'm Not Buying It!".
The campaign has attracted heavy hitters such as the Dallas Cowboy Jay Ratliff, a three-time Pro Bowler, who made a public service announcement entitled "Real men don't buy children. They don't buy sex".

Girls who enter the grim trade face harsh treatment and danger, according to a Dallas police report in 2010. Few who emerge are willing to speak about it. Tina Frundt, 36, is an exception. Now married and living in Washington DC, Ms Frundt was lured into sex work at 14 after she fell for a 24-year-old who invited her to leave home in 1989 and join his "family" in Cleveland, Ohio. That family consisted of the man and three girls living in a motel. When Ms Frundt declined on the first night to have sex with her boyfriend's friends, they raped her. "I was angry with myself for not listening to him, so the next night when he sent me out on the street and told me... [to earn $500] I listened," she said in a telephone interview.

Ms Frundt paced the streets for hours and finally got into a client's car. When she came home in the morning with just $50, her pimp beat her in front of the other girls to teach them all a lesson and sent her back on to the street the next night with the warning not to return until she had reached her quota. The scenario was repeated night after night as Ms Frundt's pimp moved his stable across the Midwest. Any sign of rebellion led to further beatings. Escape seemed out of the question. "I was a teenager in a strange town with no money and no place to go," she said. She finally escaped by getting herself arrested.

Typically, pimps recruit unwitting girls at shopping centres, mall events and on the internet. Once ensnared, shame, fear and psychological manipulation make it hard for them to break free. Clients hook up with girls via the internet, through hotels, massage parlours, strip clubs and escort services, the report said.

In a big event with lots of money coming in there will ALWAYS be the prostitutes.

Not saying it's good but....is this story?

Originally Posted by OhOh

Up to 300,000 girls between 11 and 17 are lured into the US sex industry annually,

more than Thailand?

Originally Posted by OhOh

Law enforcement agencies and advocacy groups rescued around 50 girls during the previous two Super Bowls, said Graves.

50? well it's a start . . .

Originally Posted by OhOh

Thousands of young girls are trafficked by pimps cashing in on the biggest sports event in the US

"The Super Bowl is one of the biggest human trafficking events in the United States," Greg Abbott, the attorney general for Texas, told a recent trafficking prevention meeting. Up to 300,000 girls between 11 and 17 are lured into the US sex industry annually,
.

Kinda sad for those girls that so much effort by the US is spent in places like Cambodia.

Originally Posted by genghis61

more than Thailand?

well it is the greatest economy in the world
Bunch of hypocrites

the mote in "god's" eye

Originally Posted by Dug

there are child prostitutes on a massive scale

Thousands of child-prostitutes, tattooed with dollar-signs or the word "daddy", providing taxi-based mobile paedo-sex services for hordes of depraved football fans. Surely I'm not the only one here who thinks this story may be a little sensationalized

all being pimped by lesbian dope heads on mopeds

Originally Posted by Dug

Originally Posted by Tunaka

In a big event with lots of money coming in there will ALWAYS be the prostitutes.

Not saying it's good but....is this story?

The story is not that there are prostitutes but that there are child prostitutes on a massive scale in a first world country that holds itself as a moral standard.

The US holds itsefl on a high moral standard? Some people think it does, and these people are often hypocrites.

Perhaps a few of those NGOs in asia tackling the problem of child trafficking and prostitution should relocate to the U.S.

And you're nation as well.

Originally Posted by Tunaka

Originally Posted by Dug

Originally Posted by Tunaka

In a big event with lots of money coming in there will ALWAYS be the prostitutes.

Not saying it's good but....is this story?

The story is not that there are prostitutes but that there are child prostitutes on a massive scale in a first world country that holds itself as a moral standard.

The US holds itsefl on a high moral standard? Some people think it does, and these people are often hypocrites.

Perhaps a few of those NGOs in asia tackling the problem of child trafficking and prostitution should relocate to the U.S.

And you're nation as well.

Except my nation doesn't have a child prostitution problem. I'm sure it exists in some corner somewhere but certainly not on the scale that this article suggests is is happening in the states.

Originally Posted by DrB0b

Originally Posted by Dug

there are child prostitutes on a massive scale

Thousands of child-prostitutes, tattooed with dollar-signs or the word "daddy", providing taxi-based mobile paedo-sex services for hordes of depraved football fans. Surely I'm not the only one here who thinks this story may be a little sensationalized

That's what I was wondering Doc.... I woulda thought all the networks would be onto a story like this, if 100% true.

Originally Posted by OhOh

Up to 300,000 girls between 11 and 17 are lured into the US sex industry annually, according to a 2007 report sponsored by the Department of Justice and written by the non-profit group Shared Hope International. Some 90 per cent of runaways and children whose parents force them to leave home fall into the trade and are often beaten, drugged, raped or imprisoned to force compliance, said the report.

I wish this were true.
Unfortunately it's usual crap propaganda from ultra profiting lazy assholes dirty liers organizations like this Share Crap International

Originally Posted by Tunaka

In a big event with lots of money coming in there will ALWAYS be the prostitutes.

Not saying it's good but....is this story?

Nope. And not even a 1/2 way believable one at that...

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