1. The Girls Next Door.
- Author
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Landesman, Peter
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HUMAN smuggling , *ENSLAVED children , *SEX crime laws , *SOCIAL conditions of enslaved persons , *CHILDREN & sex , *UNDOCUMENTED immigrants , *METROPOLITAN areas - Abstract
Presents the cover story on the sex-trafficking trade which begins in Eastern Europe and finds its way through Mexico to the U.S..Example of an ordinary house in Plainfield New Jersey which was raided by police; Finding of four female Mexican nationals without papers who were sex slaves not prostitutes; Difference between the two; Belief the house is just one of dozens of stash house and apartments in the New York metropolitan area which mirror hundreds more in other major cities; Renting of the girls for sex; Occasional sale of the girls to other traffickers; First U.S. law, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000; Belief that nearly 20,000 people are trafficked annually into the U.S.; How the girls are abducted; How they are broken in for the sexual slavery; How they get across the borders; Imprisonment and submission tactics; What happens to them when they are of no use to the traffickers.
- Published
- 2004