re: Baton Rouge / dehnam area - missing 15 yo girl

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It isn't a Hollywood network of well-funded traffickers actually TAKING the kids...it's local crackheads looking to make a golden goose out of a young girl to support their own addiction by creating another junkie.

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but even that is rare

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Between 2008 and 2010, federally funded task forces investigated 2,515 suspected incidents of human trafficking, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. An "investigation" was defined as "any effort in which the task force spent at least one hour investigating" the incident. Of these cases, only 6 percent led to arrests. From 2007 to fall 2008, federal dollars funded 38 sex-trafficking task forces, of which 15 found no confirmed victims or suspects, 14 reported between one and four cases, and nine reported more than five. Of the total 1,229 suspected incidents that year, sex cops found just 14 underage victims.

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it's just not a smart economical decision for a "pimp" to use a minor. this is almost always an individual economic decision for runaways b/c it's just easy money given their economic opportunities. when your life is literally a black market, your only avenues will be within that market

these days with the internet and social media apps, pimps aren't nearly as necessary