From Foster Care to Prostitution: Foster Care Feeds the Sex Trafficking Pipeline

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[Even though my own experiences were almost 70 years ago, seeing that picture makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck and a lump in the pit of my stomach]

An American attorney, Michael Dolce, has had the courage to come forward and reveal CPS and foster care for what they are... just another link- albeit probably the most critical one- in the child sex trafficking pipeline. In fact, Dolce of Cohen Milstein Law Offices, goes as far as to say that the nation’s foster care system is set up to sexually traffic children... a bold statement indeed. Dolce, who speaks from experience from representing children abused in foster care, writes:

"Here’s the ugly truth: most Americans who are victims of sex trafficking come from our nation’s own foster care system. It’s a deeply broken system that leaves thousands vulnerable to pimps as children and grooms them for the illegal sex trade as young adults.

We have failed our children by not fixing the systemic failures that have allowed this to happen for decades."

As unbelievable as it may seem, Dolce's report was published as an op-ed in the mainstream news magazine, Newsweek. The Mainstream media for decades has shied away from reporting anything that even borders on exposing the status quo... particularly the liberal government agencies such as HHS and the left leaning advocacy groups such as the Children's Defense Fund.

The studies and statistics that Dolce references are quite sobering:

The frequency of child sex abuse is a true epidemic. Since at least 2000, the U.S. Department of Justice has reported that some 67 percent of all sexual assaults are committed against victims under 18 years old.

"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports confirmed child sexual abuse cases number approximately 58,000 per year in recent years.

Unreported child sexual assaults are estimated at 80 percent and supported by multiple studies and experts.

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) found that “of the more than 18,500 endangered runaways reported to NCMEC in 2016, one in six were likely victims of child sex trafficking. Of those, 86 percent were in the care of social services when they went missing."

Common sense dictates that if the conditions in foster care are at least bearable, children won't surrender security for the uncertainty of the streets, yet they are running away from foster care in alarming numbers.

The result is unprecedented numbers of "street kids" who fall prey to pimps who groom them and sell them to pedophiles. "The essential failure is how we care for these children.

As NCMEC’s [National Center for Missing and Exploited Children] CEO told Congress in 2013, “Children in foster care are easy targets for pimps … [they] are the most susceptible to the manipulation and false promises that traffickers use to secure their trust and dependency. These children have fractured safety nets and few alternatives.”

Child welfare systems can, but often do not, prevent that reality for children. Pimps rely on that. (emphasis added)"

Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) introduced legislation in 2017 to amend an antiquated 1996 law that was ostensibly enacted to protect freedom of expression on the Internet, but, as Sen. Portman’s bill describes, allowed website operators (most prominently, Backpage- which as subsequently been shut down) to facilitate the sale of sex with victims of sex trafficking. In many of these cases, the victims are children.

"We covered the work of Senator Portman here at Health Impact News back in 2016, when he published a report on the results of a six-month investigation looking at 125,000 unaccompanied minors who had crossed the U.S. borders into the United States since 2011, reportedly fleeing violence and unrest in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador." With the "caravan" almost at our border, it causes one to ask: is this why the Democrats are so bent on open borders... to keep the sex trafficking pipeline open for unwilling participants for sex, SRA and organ harvesting? Analyses have shown that the "humanitarian organizations" involved in the Haitian earthquake relief of 2010 were involved in all of them, including USAID, a State Department run human aid institution.

Dolce, who represents victims of foster care and human trafficking writes:

"Children are learning all the time, and in abusive foster or group homes they learn that their worth as humans is not intrinsic. Their worth is what the abusive caregiver gets from them, whether simply a paycheck from the state or their bodies for sex, as happened to some of my clients.

This conditions them to be subservient to pimps—giving all they have in exchange for essential needs, like food and shelter.

As one of my clients put it, after extensive physical and sexual abuse in state care, the day she turned 18 and left the system with no community support, job or money, she saw herself in one way: “There was a gold mine between my legs.”

The rates of runaways from state care remains essentially unchanged since 2003, so the volume of potential trafficking victims has not changed.

To protect our nation’s most vulnerable children, we need the federal government to compel states that accept hundreds of millions of dollars for child welfare systems to answer, in every case that a child goes missing, why it happened and why it continues to happen."

The reason that this horrible child sex trafficking system does not stop is because those running the foster care system are corrupt. Even if one is not actually participating in child sex trafficking within the foster care system, those who know about it are not reporting it. I would also go so far as to say that those not directly participating are probably still profiting by their silence... like the old saying goes: Follow the money! "From cases of child abuse victims I have represented, I can name dozens of adults who knew of abuse in institutional care, but failed to report it."

Dolce goes on to say that even when he reported his findings to law enforcement- not one arrest was made. Apparently the law is complicit as well. He does have a solution, however:

"Every county in the U.S. has an elected sheriff, and it is time the public put pressure on their local county sheriff and demand that they stop taking children out of homes just because a social worker states that this is “the best interest of the child.”

In such cases where a child is removed from a home without a court order from a judge, and with no emergency circumstances where the child’s life is in immediate danger, if that case is litigated in the courts, the law enforcement agent who facilitated the removal will almost always be found guilty of violating the family’s constitutional rights."

This is indeed a Constitutional issue and until we see it as such, it's highly unlikely that anything will be done. This is not a law enforcement issue or one to be reconciled by social workers and family courts... they are ALL corrupt. Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of human nature can attest to these two fundamental principles... people do not willingly relinquish power nor do they give up an unending source of money, but they will fight with all their strength to maintain both.

https://medicalkidnap.com/2018/03/15/attorney-reporting-in-newsweek-foster-care-is-a-system-setup-to-sex-traffic-american-children/