Friday, 01 February 2019 02:15 PM
Super Bowl week isn’t just the biggest, holiest and most publicized event of the year for America’s sports fans.
Unfortunately, it’s also a popular event for America’s human sex trafficking industry.
It’s a myth that the Super Bowl is the country’s largest annual sex-trafficking event.
Every sports championship, convention or city where men with money go in large numbers attracts professional sellers of illegal sex from around the country.
But there’s no doubt that thousands of them have flocked to Atlanta for Sunday’s Rams-Patriots matchup.
Federal agents have already reported arresting 33 people this week on charges of sex trafficking, which often involves underaged girls and boys who’ve been forced into prostitution.
But Atlanta is no stranger to the illegal sex-trafficking trade.
Like Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, it has been a center of human sex trafficking activity for years.
According to the FBI, its predators specialize in children from Mexico.
The statistics on human sex trafficking are not easy to get with precision, but they are grim.
The second largest international crime industry behind illegal drugs, human trafficking reportedly includes 40 million people and generates $32 billion in profit a year, half of which is in industrialized countries.
According to the U.S. State Department, as many as 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every year, including an estimated 15,000 into the United States.
Most human trafficking worldwide — about 80 percent — involves sexual exploitation and the rest involves labor exploitation. About 80 percent of all trafficking victims are female and half are children.
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