What I am talking about is teenage and underage prostitution. Young girls are brought into Miami for this week to serve as prostitutes. These girls are forced to do this because of the pimps who came alongside to "help them" when they were desperate.
Here is a quote from the article: "We know that a very high percentage of runaways will end up being approached by a pimp within 72 hours of hitting the streets and they will be prostituted in order to survive on the streets," Novicki said. "So we know there is an extremely high correlation between runaway juveniles and underage prostitution.
How does this happen? Lets remember that not everyone has a heart to recuse at risk teens like we do. Others have a sick desire to take advantage and abuse these young people. These young girls, especially young girls, come from difficult, abusive homes, and walk from them into even more abusive situations. It is so disturbing!!
Another quote from the article is this: The epidemic of underage sex trafficking isn't contained to Super Bowl weekend. An estimated 100,000 girls in the United States are under the control of a pimp or trafficker.
America and Canada need to step up and address this issue. As much as they need to stand in the gap for these precious teens and sadly young children, we as the Christian community need to find a way to make a difference too.
A child should never be forced to sell their bodies in order to survive, yet many have been forced to do this. It is not right!!!
Isn't it saddening and disturbing to know that our teens face such tremendous difficulty. My heart breaks for these beautiful people. They need to know there is hope and love. They can receive that hope and love from God and from ministries like ours.
Let us pray for our teens and pray for God to intervene and rescue some even today.
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