Walking Prey: How America's Youth Are Vulnerable to Sex Slavery Holly Austin Smith
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Youth Sex Trafficking Statistics. Today, two cultural forces are converging to make America's youth easy targets for sex traffickers. I speak from 15 years experience working with vulnerable & at risk youth. This story is "It's been about a year" she started to say -- before walking off to meet a blue sedan that had slowed down in front of her, turned the corner, and stopped. Concealed, often out of sight . Apr 21, 2014 - I just finished reading Walking Prey: How America's Youth Are Vulnerable to Sex Slavery, and it basically contradicts your hope that legalizing prostitution would lessen minors being involved. And that's a very There are many girls just like Salina all over America and for the first time in the very long history of prostitution there's a new effective tool for criminals who seek monetary gain and sex from underage girls - the Internet. Moreover, pimps and gangsters ruin our communities. In addition to domestic girls who are exploited, about 14,500 to 17,500 . Feb 18, 2014 - There is unfortunately a sex-tourism industry here, where wealthy gay men travel here and surrounding countries to fornicate with disadvantaged and vulnerable youth /boys. Jan 10, 2014 - They can be sentenced to long prison terms for major offenses such as operating a prostitution business, child sex abuse, and sex trafficking. May 25, 2014 - Salina is a sex-trafficking victim, not a felon, but like most teenage girls who are prostituting she has a history of problems at home. Traffickers prey upon vulnerable kids who run away from home or who look like they need some attention. May 6, 2010 - The average age of entry for female prostitutes in the United States is between 12 and 14 years, and children and youth older than 12 are prime targets for sexual exploitation by organized crime units, according to a 2001 report. May 12, 2010 - Oakland Local, a web site run by BlogHer Contributing Editor Susan Mernit, is running an original investigative series on youth sex trafficking in the Bay area. Mar 23, 2014 - Walking Prey: How America's Youth Are Vulnerable to Sex Slavery.