Informative: Newscast

Kenzie: Breaking news! Man alleged to be a human trafficker after a girl escaped and came to authorities asking for help. Lauren, which is not her real name, is one of hundreds of young New York girls who have been abducted from their normal lives and made into various slaves. And now we have Brittany Baker for more on the topic.

Brittany: Yes, hello. Human Trafficking is the act of kidnapping and selling people. They usually use threats and bribery.

Kenzie: Who is targeted?

Brittany: Kids are targeted more than adults because of easy persuasion. The trafficker would tell children things like “you would have fun.” The FBI guesses that more than 100,000 children are taken and forced to do unimaginable things. Although kids are mainly targeted, women are also targeted at bars, cafes, clubs, and just in the general public.

Kenzie: What are the ages that are usually trafficked?

Brittany: The ages range from 9 to 19. 2/3 of trafficked children are abused. They eventually develop mental health problems, engage in prostitution as adults or commit crimes later on in life. Please take a look at this chart and see the types of human trafficking.

*Puts up chart for about 10 seconds*

Kenzie: There are a quite a few types of trafficking as you just saw. 75% of those people are for sexual exploitation.

Brittany: Well what exactly is human trafficking?

Kenzie: Trafficking consist of basically personal pleasures such as prostitution and labor. But a lot of it is also selling organs, forced marriage, or criminal activities. In the world there are estimated 27 million people trapped in slavery at the moment.

Brittany: How much money has been spent on human trafficking exactly?

Kenzie: If you added up all the money spent around the world for trafficking, it would add up to 31.7 million United States dollars. But in Latin America sexual exploitation became a 16-billion dollar business in 2005

Brittany: Now that is all we have for today. Please tune in for more on this topic when the special “Patterns in History: Human Trafficking” where we follow Lauren’s story on Saturday at eight o’clock PM. Thank you for watching and have a good night.

*Works Cited*

Human trafficking. (2010). Polaris Project. Retrieved March 1,2012, from

            http://www.polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/overview?gclid=CMHAxOqjxq4CFQoBQAoddUhhWA

What is human trafficking. (2012). UNODC. Retrieved March 1, 2012, from

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html

Hostess/strip clubs – Sex trafficking. (2010). Polaris Project. Retrieved March 2, 2012, from

            http://www.polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/sex-trafficking-in-us/hostessstrip-clubs