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Showing Original Post only (View all)My understanding about the whole child sex trafficking thing. Correct me if I'm wrong. [View all]
It is a very real issue with some heightened risk, but only if someone is:
1. An undocumented immigrant
Or
2. Runaways and children who have fallen though the cracks of the foster care/protective services system
For anyone else, for people living in normal, stable family situations, the chances that their child is simply snatched off the street for some trafficking ring like some bad Liam Neeson movie are basically Powerball winning odds.
Moreover, all the Q-Anon and Q-Anon Adjacent people who are spreading panic and fear that everyone's kids are being snatched away for sex-trafficking or organ harvesting are making it far more hard for people trying to combat legitimate human trafficking (see above) to do their job.
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My understanding about the whole child sex trafficking thing. Correct me if I'm wrong. [View all]
Tommy Carcetti
Jul 2023
OP
This article says that most victims of child sex trafficking know their traffickers.
Scrivener7
Jul 2023
#2
Meanwhile Trump loses track of around 1,000 kids and they could be anywhere.
TheBlackAdder
Jul 2023
#4
Close but not quite. People think that sex trafficking is dramatic, involves kidnapping or
WhiskeyGrinder
Jul 2023
#6
And to the extent they are true, 90%+ of it are committed by REPUBLICANS - I ga'ontee
peppertree
Jul 2023
#27
Real, but the Qanon slant is called "propaganda porn" by a DUer. CAVIEZEL, Mel GIBSON, VERASTEGUI
UTUSN
Jul 2023
#15
I must respectfully disagree based on data. Certainly your '1' and '2' above are quite true, BUT
PatrickforB
Jul 2023
#25
The vast majority of those kids are with someone they know when they "go missing."
WhiskeyGrinder
Jul 2023
#28