Stop Child Trafficking Now with Elisha Krauss & the Divas

We were feeling super powerful on this week’s show to learn how horrible the Child Sex Trade industry is in our own U.S.A, but also what we can do to end it! Our guest Alisha Krauss has been with Stop Child Trafficking since it was formed and filled us in on the shocking facts. But our conversation was fascinating and encouraging.

SCTnow – is different from other rescue agencies that help people sold into the modern slave trade. This organization actually uses highly trained retired Navy Seals to infiltrate and investigate and bring to justice, the predators and professional gangsters that are getting rich off of the exploitation of innocent women and children. Check it out…

• Child/Human Trafficking is one of the fastest growing crimes in the world. Child/ human trafficking is the world’s second largest criminal enterprise, after drugs. U.S. State Department
• The global market of child trafficking at over $12 billion a year with over 1.2 million child victims. UNICEF
• As many as 2.8 million children run away each year in the US. Within 48 hours of hitting the streets, one-third of these children are lured or recruited into the underground world of prostitution and pornography. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
• The average age of entry for children victimized by the sex trade industry is 12 years. U.S. Department of Justice
• Approximately 80% of human trafficking victims are women and girls and up to 50% are minors.  U.S. State Department
• The average number of victims for non-incestuous pedophiles who molest girls is 20, for pedophiles who prefer boys 100! The Association For the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA)
• 300,000 children in the U.S. are at risk every year for commercial sexual exploitation. U.S. Department of Justice
• 600,000 – 800,000 people are bought and sold across international borders each year; 50% are children, most are female. The majority of these victims are forced into the commercial sex trade.  U.S. Department of State, 2004, Trafficking in Persons Report, Washington, D.C.
• An estimated 14,500 to 17,500 foreign nationals are trafficked into the United States each year. The number of U.S. citizens trafficked within the country is even higher, with an estimated 200,000 American children at risk for trafficking into the sex industry. U.S. Department of Justice Report to Congress from Attorney General John Ashcroft on U.S. Government Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons
• Investigators and researchers estimate the average predator in the U.S. can make more than $200,000 a year off one young girl. NBC Report by Teri Williams
• An average serial child molester may have as many as 400 victims in his lifetime. Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Study
• Child pornography is one of the fastest growing crimes in the United States right now.  Nationally, there has been a 2500% increase in arrests in 10 years. FBI
• The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which helps to identify and locate children in pornography photos and videos, says it’s staff reviewed more than 10.5 million images in 2009 alone.
• Reports of exploited children grow every year, in 2009, the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children received more than 120,000 reports on its cyber tip line. In 2010, the number grew to over 160,000 with the vast majority being from child pornography.

You can do something easy or fun to END something hideous! You can plan or participate in a local run for this cause. You can go to the website and make a donation, or you can go to their website and download the video/song “Red with Love” and get a T-shirt that spreads awareness and makes a difference!

Here is the link again to this beloved Mission 500 organization of ours:

http://www.SCTNow.org

You can also listen to the show right here:

And meet our lovely guest:

Elisha Krauss is the Senior producer of a national radio show with 15 million listeners a week. She has
been in media for 7 years and during that time has planned charity concerts, speaking events and
coordinated broadcasts from the 2008 campaign trail including but not limited to the DNC and RNC.

Elisha is also a strong advocate for SCTNow and has been a volunteer with the organization since it was
formed. She and her husband Eric have a passion for making sure Americans are alerted to this issue and
get involved to stop the supply and demand of child trafficking.