Political Quotes

“I include in the Record the article: ``Police: Children recruiting other kids for human trafficking at schools.'' This was in Florida. [From WKMG ClickOrlando.com, Nov. 1, 2018] Police: Children Recruiting Other Kids for Human Trafficking at Schools Florida ranks 3rd in the nation for calls to human trafficking hotline (By Erik von Ancken) Orlando, FL.--Human trafficking is real and it is happening in Central Florida. Crystal Blanton, co-chair of the Marion County Human Trafficking Task Force, said she receives thousands of reports from the National Human Trafficking Hotline every year. ``Usually the reports are in the thousands, every year,'' Blanton said. ``Thousands of people are being human trafficked. Right here in Marion County and across the state of Florida.'' Blanton said it's not like the movies (``Taken'' 2008), where young girls are taken during their summer vacations by foreign human traffickers to be sold to sultans or sheiks. But local children, often as young as 12, are being recruited into a life of forced prostitution. ``I just think it's the internet, I hate to say it,'' Blanton said. ``Social media has grown the field of human trafficking. It's easier for these traffickers to make contact with victims.'' Blanton said traffickers look for vulnerable teenagers online--runaways, teenagers complaining about their lives and their parents, young people with drug addictions--and befriend them.…”