Final Report of the Subcommittee on Domestic Trafficking
Final Report of the Subcommittee on Domestic Trafficking
Final Report of the Subcommittee on Domestic Trafficking
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• The strategy <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> befriending and love is designed to fit <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> vulnerabilities <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> itspotential victim.• A procurer’s goal is to find naive, needy teenage girls or young women, c<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>minto dependency, seas<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>m into fear and submissi<strong>on</strong>, and “turn <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>m out” into<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> sex trade.• Today, because trafficking in women and girls is determined to be more pr<str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g>itablethan trafficking in guns and drugs, all you have to be is a girl or young woman tobe targeted.• Guerilla Pimping: Pimps are looking more towards suburbia for “naïve girls”and “guerilla pimping” has emerged as a means <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> kidnapping girls and women.These traffickers use severe and immediate violence to force <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> victim toparticipate in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> sex industry. A comm<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>me found in “guerilla pimping” isthat a woman or girl is physically picked up, thrown into a trunk and transportedto cities throughout <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> US. SAGE Project has rescued individuals who do notknow what city <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>y are in and what cities <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>y have been trafficked throughwhile being forced to work in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> sex trade that including strip clubs, escortservices, <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> streets, internet sites such as Craig’s list, or sites created by <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>pimps <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>mselves. They are sold <strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> back pages <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> alternative news papers,and sex trade magazines. They had been kept and transported in trunks <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> carsand isolated in out <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> way motels and single room occupancy hotelsthroughout <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> country while being brutalized, raped, tortured and are sold to allwho demand <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>m.• Smooth-talking Players: Some US traffickers, choose <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> “smooth-talkingplayer” role. They systematically and methodically break down <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>ir “prey,” bysocially isolating <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>m, taking <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>m away from family, friends and embroiling<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>m in a social system that involves living in transient hotels close to <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> “whorestrolls”, traveling from city to city, and socializing with transient pers<strong>on</strong>s usuallyalso involved in <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> sex industry as prostitutes or pimps. Harsher methods mayinvolve beating, raping, sodomizing, drugging and starving a woman beforeturning her out <strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> streets or over to a bro<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>l. All <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>se women and girls arelosing precious days, m<strong>on</strong>ths and years out <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>ir lives, as well as, losing <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>normal development and life skills afforded to young women who are going toschool, building valuable and dependable and n<strong>on</strong>-abusive social support systems,having after school jobs, opening checking accounts, renting apartments and evenbuying <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>ir own clo<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>s.• A critical step in seas<strong>on</strong>ing a girl is changing her identity. She is given a newname and any necessary papers, such as false driver’s license, social security cardand birth certificate, so that <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> police will not be able to trace her real identity ordetermine her true age. More importantly, <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> stripping <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> girl’s identityremoves her past and makes her <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> property <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g> pimp. According toanthropologists Christina and Richard Milner, “A pimp wants a woman’s mindmore than her body. Its love, loyalty, and obedience he requires as well as acapacity for self discipline.”• After a number <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> girls were murdered, we discovered that <str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>y had beenarrested as adults. We found o<str<strong>on</strong>g>the</str<strong>on</strong>g>r girls were arrested as many as 30 times.75