Esmeralda
Diamond Member
I think it is more an impression that the writer of the article had than based on any factual research or statistics. Like you said, it is alarmist, and I think shouldn't be published w/o facts to back it up, rather than an anecdotal situation by one mother.`I looked for anything that said Seattle was highly ranked for child sex trafficking in the US and didn't find anything.
The article was taken from a Seattle/northwest area source so I image they were posted about their area inclusively. I added that it is actually a national problem.
The girl in the article was a runaway. Only a troubled kid is a runaway. The family has to take some responsibility rather than just saying any kid at all is going to be swept off the street and used as a sex slave. If your kid has run away, there is a problem in the home. I'm not excusing sex traffickers, but they couldn't function w/o vulnerable children to prey on.
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