EPIDEMIC OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING 3
An increased rate of reliance on the web has enlarged the scope of human trafficking. For
example, children are friend requested on the social media by their perpetrators, who pretend to
be potential lovers. In the end, they convince them to meet in some places, where they kidnap
and sell them to prostitution.
Language
The language used to describe the victim of sex trafficking has often criticized the
victims and profiled offenders as innocent. For example, the terms like "whore” or “prostitute”
have frequently been used to give a false notion that victims opted to be exploited. Traffickers,
on the other hand, have taken advantage of this blame game to gain from this awful activity.
Real life example
After losing his father, Queen recalls being oppressed by her uncle. She decided to
relocate from Nigeria in 2014 after she was given false promises of finding a good job in Niger
(Queen 2016). While in her new destination, Queen recalls being approached by a Libyan man
who promised to pay her around six times what she used to earn in Nigeria. Little did Queen
know that she was turning herself into the world of prostitution. She says, she would be raped by
several men in a Libyan hotel room. The ordeal continued for years until a Nigerian man rescued
her and taken to a refugee camp in Italy.
Conclusion
Children and the likes of Queen are not prostitutes; rather they are just sexually exploited.
Therefore, challenging how we profile exploiters and victims will assist change how the society
