HUMAN TRAFFICKING (VIDEO AND SCRIPT)

In 1865 President Abraham Lincoln and the US congress ratified the 13^th amendment to the constitution which states, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States.

No sensible person believes that slavery could happen in the 21^st century. Far less, on our shores. We couldn’t be more wrong. Slave traffickers around the world have rediscovered how profitable it is to buy and sell people.

Each one of these girls could be your sister, your best friend or as Annie Gray showed us, your daughter.

None of these 57 girls would have lasted more than 4 years in our country.

Each one of them would have been worked to death as a sex slave in a brothel, murdered for an infraction of her master’s rules or contracting hepatitis or aids.

Human trafficking has emerged as a tragic whip lash by the economic transition that has occurred over the past seven years in Eastern Europe

Men like sir Gay Carpovich know how to take advantage of this. Now, we stopped him but there are many more waiting to take his place. But no matter how difficult our battle is, it is vitally important that law enforcement, Department of Homeland Security eyes that we all keep working together as a team to battle these ruthless criminals. At the same time we need to create a climate of hope for their victims, we need to give these young women the idea that their lives are still worth living without shame after all the desperation and hardships that they’ve endured.

And perhaps, most importantly, we must face the fact that none of this horror would be possible if our culture didn’t create a demand for it.

Ladies and gentlemen, the United States is one of the largest markets for sex slavery in the entire world. We need to realise that modern day slavery is only occurring because we choose to ignore it.

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