Sex trafficking has become a major issue not only in the U.S. but throughout the whole world. Many people are sex trafficked every year. Most people who are sex trafficked are kids and a huge majority of the kids are women. Sex trafficking has been a major problem for many years but has only been in the media recently.

                Sex trafficking is in the top three money making crimes behind drugs and firearms. It is so profitable because you can sell a person over and over. With drugs, people keep coming back but you have to keep buying more. With firearms you can charge high but once they have what they want that is it. There is a huge demand for trafficking young girls because you can’t have sex with an under-aged person ANYWHERE. You can buy smaller firearms at a gun store and get over the counter drugs at the pharmacy. The gun store and pharmacy don’t offer the best selection but it is something.

                The reason sex trafficking has not become a big issue over the years is because people keep it so secret. As seen in the movies they can just walk around with the girls sometimes, but you could never walk around with illegal gun/drugs. The secret to crime is to keep crime a secret. Law enforcement of any kind needs to have certain amount evidence on you. They can’t prosecute simply because they think you did it, and if they get enough evidence they can only do so much at court to prove you’re guilty. If you are found guilty you will be out soon due to our low sentences in America. I learned at Boy State vehicular homicide has a max sentence of 15 years and 50,000 dollars in the state of South Dakota, which does not equal a life. Murder is a very serious crime, if that is how they punish you for murder imagine how low a sex trafficking crime the sentence is for.

Sex trafficking has had a global effect because it is so profitable and kept so secret with little the government can do to stop it. If people stopped paying for sex trafficking and we had a better law enforcement, maybe we could stop it. It has to be a global effort due to it being a global problem. If we stop it in America only, it will grow all over in the rest of the world.