The grooming and recruitment of teens in sex crimes often takes place in a school setting. Sometimes a student's behavior changes. They start to dress provocatively, or leave school early. Sometimes they are regularly sleepy or hungry.
The bottom line for large scale sex trafficking enterprises is generating millions of dollars in revenue and then finding unique ways to sanitize the money so it will not be connected back to illegal activity. Our guest this week is Dr. Ian Oxnevad.
The Center for Disease Control has estimated that 18,000 kids a day will send a naked photo online. And that was before social distancing and Covid isolation and online learning.
Parents often ask me what they can do to make certain their child is not a victim of sexual exploitation whether it is sextortion, social media exploitation or sex trafficking. The answer may surprise you.
There is a movement across the U.S. to defund law enforcement agencies. Additionally, with Covid 19 crisis many prisons and jails are letting prisoners out early.
Instant messaging apps, mass-audience live streaming and online video game chat rooms all open the door to relationships with people we have never met and, in most cases, will never meet.
This week we examine the phenomena of the "Cuties" movie that portrays eleven year old girls emulating sex acts to music. We explore the impact on our kids and our society of prepubescent children emulating adult sex acts while on the world wide web. We discuss the issue of our kids being exposed to adult sexual relations before they even understand adult sex and the impact of shame based sexual encounters with adult perpetrators. We discuss how sex without context, sex without morals, sex with intimacy will form life time feelings about future sexual relationships. Most important we talk about what parents and community leaders can do to counter this hyper-sexualization of our young children.
These are hard times. No other way to say it. Searing Heat, social distancing, a pandemic of deaths and illness, unemployment, and first graders preparing to “go to school” online.
All a parent has to do is read this article and suddenly the thought of having millions of kids online this fall without supervision, bored and with time on their hands, becomes a reality. And we realize our world is about to change.
Most of us are aware that sex trafficking and social media exploitation of our teenagers is a very real thing.
All app companies, chatrooms and yes, even online gaming companies have total access to your soul.
Pimping is not about sex. It is about power and control and money. It permeates every level of our society. From high rollers like Epstein to common street pimps, the end goal is the same. The exploitation of another human being for personal gain.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity. – Melody Beattie We are living in a time of adversity.
Organized crime, sex trafficking rings, and illegal pot grows all have one thing in common. Money Laundering. Few people in Southern California are aware of just how close they live to big dollar crime.