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Just witnessed this in my old Brooklyn neighborhood. They already have a half dozen discrete massage of parlors which nobody was offended by, but a new establishment opened up along a popular restaurant row, and bloggers lost their minds. Which led to a Sunday NY Post story. Which led to the place closing the following day. To what end? Certainly didn't help any of the girls. They just moved deeper into Brooklyn or almost any neighborhood in Manhattan.
I think the difficult thing about it is the victim's don't advocate for themselves, out of fear and shame. In many cases there are threats against victims' families if they were to ever try to escape. And rape unfortunately breeds shame and self-loathing, and there's just a lack of understanding of this issue in general in society -- about the scale of it and the human cost. Plus, the perpetrators are usually based in other countries, so it's difficult to prosecute. So at every turn, there are disincentives to talk about it and to do anything about it. We need to be motivated by pure human compassion to save these people even as they deny they are victims and even when we don't get the satisfaction of prosecuting the traffickers. I hope more people will talk about it and get involved.
They keep popping up here in Queens and people do a good job of highlighting them and getting them to close down. I can't imagine how many there must be in Flushing and other areas.
Yeah, so again it's overt in certain areas - Flushing, CT, K-town, Sunset Park. But it's all over, in almost in every neighborhood, from FiDi to the UES. In class C buildings on almost every block of midtown. One floor above a legit therapeutic spa in my 'hood, Hell's Kitchen. In the back of the barbershop down the street from my office. Next to my favorite Mexican restaurant on St Marks Place.
Great group. We have a number of people from my church that use a local 5k to raise money for this group every year. It's unbelievably sad how huge this issue is and how little coverage it gets in the media. You would think that with the combination of slavery, sex, and women's health/rights, this would be a home run all the way with the media and tons of rights groups. But it seems largely overlooked. I really don't understand it.
Well, it's something that everyone is against so it's not going to generate any type of debate and it seems to me that disagreement is what leads to a lot of discussion around here. A thread about murder also wouldn't generate much discussion. But, a thread about guns and their role in murder will because that's debatable. I'd guess most people don't have a strong opinion on how to best fight this, but maybe a few people do and that could be interesting to discuss.
Jesus...
Well any government agency that has overseas dealings and posts is going to run into it. In the DoD you have a lot of young people, 25 and under. When I was in we didn't have the training, I had to learn about stuff like this on my own. I remember being in Saudi in the 90s and a female indentured servant got cold-cocked by her supervisor (who was also a 3rd country national) for something or another right in front of a whole bunch of hungry troops. We started yelling at the guy and causing a ruckus, much of the staff working in the Chow hall scattered like roaches in the back. Never saw the supervisor or the woman again. I just assumed they both met a cruel fate.
For me, it's about awareness and HOPEFULLY that awareness filters up to people being motivated to get their representatives involved. I was at a church in Cincy for a period of years that had formed a coalition of individuals (lawyers, doctors, ex military, ex police etc) that would go to these countries and help in any way they could. It's a life threatening proposition, but by the time I left, 15 children had been saved (everything from physical removal from the situation to helping get them through the legal process etc).
Oddly enough they just had a sizeable bust in NO, maybe 10-15 women/girls were let free from an undisclosed location.
Does this mean that more victims are moved during the game cuz law enforcement is taking time off to watch football?
No, I think that more girls are brought to and moved around the SB city b/c of the demand.
