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In reply to the discussion: Sodomy Hazing Leaves 13-Year-Old Victim Outcast in Colorado Town [View all]libodem
(19,288 posts)And now. Talk therapy, and maybe long term residential housing to keep young offenders from victimizing, until they can trust themselves. But this horrific stuff happens world wide, say in Africa with all the child soldiers. They turn them into killers and they are often abused in other ways. All the world wide refuge camps. All the internal displacment in Iraq and kids whose parents were killed or imprisoned. I fear many children have been sold into slavery for labor and sex.
Oprah, did a show on sex trafficking before she left the network, that was shocking in the pervasive extent of human trafficking. I have the most dreaded feeling about private contractors, having access to displaced vulnerable, disparate, people, they could buy and sell for profit.
Lebanon and Jordan are probably still full of Iraqi refugees, who are illegal aliens and unable to find legitimate work.
This world is filled with deprivation and depravity. It is not just a little slice of certain American men's attitudes and behaviors, that we an call "rape culture", like it is a special membership club, it is a world wide power and poverty asymmetrical problem where the disenfranchised are trampled.