The Trees:
CHILD SEXUAL SLAVERY
“I wanted to put the audience in the shoes of this guy, who at the end of the film, closes his eyes and runs away,” McCullum said. “He leaves her alone in the room, because he is too afraid to face the truth. He represents our society, afraid to really admit there is a problem. If she gets saved in the film, the burden of action is taken off the viewer, when today’s truth is that most of these girls will not be saved.” (emphasis mine)Sex and Money in a city near you
"Sex+Money: A National Search for Human Worth" is a documentary about domestic minor sex trafficking not for sale (PDF warning) Prostitution is a $14.5 billion dollar industry in the United States.(13) There are at least 100,000 children prostituted in America every year.(14) Traffiking facts 12 to 14 – average entry age of girls into sex slavery in the US 5 - girls as young as 5 years old are being controlled by pimps and forced to perform sexual acts $1200 – typical earnings by one child on a weekend night CHILD PORNOGRAPHY.
Producing child abuse images has now become easy and inexpensive. The Internet allows images and digitized movies to be reproduced and disseminated to tens of thousands of individuals at the click of a button. More info here: Child pornography is one of the fastest growing businesses online, and the content is becoming much worse. In 2008, Internet Watch Foundation found 1,536 individual child abuse domains. (Internet Watch Foundation. Annual Report, 2008).Of all known child abuse domains, 58 percent are housed in the United States (Internet Watch Foundation. Annual Report, 2008).
The fastest growing demand in commercial websites for child abuse is for images depicting the worst type of abuse, including penetrative sexual activity involving children and adults and sadism or penetration by an animal (Internet Watch Foundation. Annual Report, 2008).
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE Child sexual abuse has been reported up to 80,000 times a year, but the number of unreported instances is far greater, Pay attention The first indicators of sexual abuse may not be physical, but rather behavioral changes or abnormalities. Unfortunately, because it can be so difficult to accept that sexual abuse may be occurring,the adult may misinterpret the signals and feel that the child is merely being disobedient or insolent. That's one part of my personal story.The Forest:
res ipsa loquitur = the thing speaks for itself. and as my tort master used to say, "but what the hell is it saying"?
For SwedishJewfish: you brought this long time lurker out of hiding. Be safe.
Put a candle in the window, but I feel I've got to move. Though I'm going, going, I'll be coming home soon, 'Long as I can see the light.Pack my bag and let's get movin', 'cause I'm bound to drift a while. Well I'm gone, gone, you don't have to worry no, 'Long as I can see the light.
Guess I've got that old trav'lin' bone, 'cause this feelin' won't leave me alone. But I won't, won't be losin' my way, no, no 'Long as I can see the light.
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
Put a candle in the window, 'cause I feel I've got to move. Though I'm going, going, I'll be coming home soon, Long as I can see the light. Long as I can see the light. Long as I can see the light. Long as I can see the light. Long as I can see the light.