1. I’m sure everyone has heard about the child sex sting operation here in Tri-Cities that law enforcement did a few weeks back. Yes, this scares me as it should any parent. The article I chose to share is from the Tri-City Harald (http://www.tricityherald.com/news/local/crime/article160556469.html). I never thought something this horrible could happen in my home town, but it did. After reading in Gardner’s book about how the media presents crime it was shocking to re-read the article. They do not provide any hard numbers, the only number you get is that they made 26 arrests; three of which do not even live in Tri-Cities. They do not talk about the likelihood of this happening to any one child who lives around here. The only information they give about the safety of our children is …show more content…
I believe reporters are trying to give us the most accurate information they can most of the time. But reporters are people, and some people do exaggerate stories for various reasons like fame and attention. So why would reporters be exempt from this natural event to stretch the truth? If a reporter was put in a sticky situation where they needed more viewers to keep their job, they might be tempted to make things seem more dramatic, though that would be a test of the person’s character. Reporters, just like any other profession, will have some good and some not so good. It’s up to us to make educated decisions about who we will trust and who we might have to get a second opinion about. I try not to believe everything I see and hear on T.V. especially if I have a feeling that something is off. When my little brother was six my parents took him to Kania clinic on Road 68 in Pasco, for a lump on his neck. The doctor (without even running a single test) said “he has leukemia”. He was horribly wrong. He had cat scratch fever and was back to normal within a few weeks. This goes to show just because someone is a Doctor or a Reporter, they can be wrong even if they’re convinced
6. (CC) Since Madame Loisel is the protagonist; I would say the necklace itself is the antagonist. As you can tell from the title of this short story, the necklace is the center of the conflict that is created to the Loisels. It is after Madame loses the necklace that all the trouble begins. Also, the necklace causes them misery and they end up being in debt. Madame and her husband had to work harder than they ever before to pay off the
The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 was established because an American boy was abducted form a Florida shopping mall and was later found murdered. The act was signed into law by George W. Bush on July 27, 2006. This act is established to protect children from sexual exploitation and violent crime to prevent child abuse and child pornography to promote internet safety. This act is also known as the sex offender registration and notification act. It was established with the intention to strengthen laws related to child sexual predators. This law was instructed for each state and/or territory to apply criteria’s for posting offenders data on the internet.
High crime rates not only put the children at risk as potential victims but also robs them of the male role models that are vital to their development. Most of the fath...
Maryclaire Dale’s article “Kindergarten kidnapper tells girl, ‘I’m not a monster’”, appears in the Bucks County Courier Times and it tells the people of Bucks County how a woman kidnapped a kindergartener from school. In Philadelphia during January of 2013, a girl was taken from her kindergarten classroom and “sexually tortured during a bizarre overnight ordeal.” The girl was an 8-year-old and she had been abducted by “former day care worker Christina Regusters”, who was 22 years old. Christina was sentenced to 40 years to life. The judge called the crime, “a horror show” because the 8-year-old girl was found “shivering under playground equipment” half naked. Christina took full responsibility for what happened and as she was charged with “kidnapping, sexual assault and other charges”
But there was a new social panic in the air. Across North America, day-care workers were being accused of mass child sex abuse. Social workers sensed a cause, and ambitious prosecutors sensed an opportunity. The children, badgered to come up with lurid tales, obliged. Sympathetic juries were exhorted to believe the children. Hundreds of preschools closed; many people went to prison before their sentences were overturned.
Kotrla, K., & Wommack, B. A. (2011). Sex Trafficking of Minors in the U.S.: Implications for Policy, Prevention and Research. Journal of Applied Research on Children: Informing Policy for Children at Risk: Vol. 2 (Iss. 1), article 5.
Introduction The United States of America has always supported freedom and privacy for its citizens. More importantly, the United States values the safety of its citizens at a much higher level. Every year, more laws are implemented in an attempt to deter general or specific criminal behaviors or prevent recidivism among those who have already committed crimes. One of the most heinous crimes that still occurs very often in the United States is sexual offenses against children. Currently, there are over 700,000 registered sex offenders and 265,000 sex offenders who are under correctional supervision.
In the article “Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking in the United States,” Kimberly Kotrla discussed the disheartening facts of what’s going on in the United States under our noses. Today more and more people are finding out about this sad industry. In Alaska my brother goes out in the streets to help save these girls in sex trafficking. Knowing my brother is doing something to end this made me feel proud while reading this informative essay.
Although historically Minot has not had to deal with these problems, it is now seeing massive increases in advertisement of sex for money and human trafficking cases. “By 2 p.m. on a recent Tuesday, Backpage.com in Minot listed 64 escort ads posted that day” stated an August 2014 article in the Minneapolis based Star Tribune. Shockingly this number was only a dozen shy of the total ads posted in Minneapolis/St. Paul area (Louwagie). This has become a huge problem in other, more rural areas with little action being taken to prevent it. Ads soliciting sexual services are being posted online by girls from their teens to their early twenties. Even more devastating is the fact that many girls with ads are as young as 14 and are coerced into this life by pimps. Windie Lazenko, an aid worker in Williston, was only 13 years old when when she was sold into prostitution (Boyce and This is Life: Filthy Rich). Lazenko, now 30, moved to Williston short-term to help work with the growing issue of sex crimes but has ended up staying and working for a cause that hits so close to home. She somberly stated in an interview with CNN, “In the whole entire state of North Dakota, I am the only one, so far, that is providing direct services to victims of sex trafficking” (qtd. in This is Life: Filthy Rich). Prostitution is not going away; moreover, it is alarming to know that it is happening right
Sex offenders have been a serious problem for our legal system at all levels, not to mention those who have been their victims. There are 43,000 inmates in prison for sexual offenses while each year in this country over 510,000 children are sexually assaulted(Oakes 99). The latter statistic, in its context, does not convey the severity of the situation. Each year 510,000 children have their childhood's destroyed, possibly on more than one occasion, and are faced with dealing with the assault for the rest of their lives. Sadly, many of those assaults are perpetrated by people who have already been through the correctional system only to victimize again. Sex offenders, as a class of criminals, are nine times more likely to repeat their crimes(Oakes 99). This presents a
“Teen Girls’ Stories of Sex Trafficking in U.S.” ABC News. 1-4, 2006. Web. 20 Jul 2010. .
A Swiss cognitive psychologist by the name of Jean Piaget once said, “The principal goal of education is to create men [and women] who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.” Now that we have read the facts and are well informed, it is up to every single one of us to do something with them. Every day we choose to ignore it and turn the other way, countless victims are suffering in their misery, wondering when someone is going to come and find them, thinking that they are not worth being found. Child sex trafficking is reaching an all time high, and is becoming one of the richest businesses in the world. People need to spread the information, and be more aware of this monumental issue. People need to act. We are no longer unaware.
Often times, pedophiles stalk their victims. Common places for these people to get a hold of their victims are playgrounds, daycare centers, on their walk home from school, public parks, and many other places. More often than not, these predators have a “type” for instance children with brown hair, green eyes, and height. Some pedophiles have sexual preferences as well, most prefer boys, but there are those that have no preference and others that prefer females. This problem might be solved if schools had police help escort the children who walk home from their schools, public parks might benefit from adding security systems and surveillance cameras as well as at public play areas. The local police force might consider having constant patrols in areas...
More and more frequently, incidents of drug deals, gang violence, and domestic shootings are shown on the news. Many of these incidents occur in urban areas just steps away from where young children play. Healthy, fun environments within urban cities, such as playgrounds, community pools, and age-appropriate splash pads, can encourage children to safely enjoy being children and help them, refrain against life-altering actions such as drugs, gang violence, and sexual exploitation. Another way of installing safety within communities is by installing neighborhood watch programs. These committees make it their priority to insure the safety of all members within the community and take action in preventing dangerous
More importantly, “60 percent of children who are sexually abused do not disclose and most are acquaintances but as many as 47 percent are family or extended family” (The Scope of, 2016). The prevalence of child sexual abuse is difficult to determine because it is often not reported; experts agree that the incidence is far greater than what is reported to authorities (Child Sexual Abuse, 2012). Startling statistics represent the depth of the issue. Globally, prevalence rates show that a range of 7-36% of women and 3-29% of men experience sexual abuse in childhood (The Scope of, 2016). “The U.S Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau report child maltreatment 2010 found that 9.2% of victimized children were sexually assaulted” (Child Sexual Abuse,