The Super Bowl’s Biggest Losers: The Boys and Girls Being Sold for Sex 20 Times a Day
The Super Bowl’s Biggest Losers: The Boys and Girls Being Sold for Sex 20 Times a Day | By John W. Whitehead
There can only be one winner emerging from this year’s Super Bowl LIV showdown between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs, but the biggest losers will be the hundreds of young girls and boys-some as young as 9 years old-who will be bought and sold for sex during the course of the big game.
FBI Recovers 168 Children From Sex-Trafficking Rings Across the U.S.
The weeklong operation took place in more than 100 cities
Who buys a trafficked child for sex? Otherwise ordinary men.
More than 1 million children, according to the International Labour Organization, are exploited each year in the commercial sex trade. IndyStar columnist Tim Swarens, through the support of a Society of Professional Journalists fellowship, spent more than a year investigating a lucrative business where children are abused with low risk to buyers or traffickers, despite tougher laws and heightened international awareness of the scourge.
