RENEWAL CENTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN MINISTRY, INC.

Presents: Tell Your Story:  Dispelling the Darkness of Sex Trafficking

October 12, 2024

WHAT IS SEX TRAFFICKING?

Sex trafficking is to deal or trade in something illegal. Sex trafficking is human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation, forced labor, or any other illegal services.

A working definition of sex trafficking is  a crime which involves exploitation [taking advantage ]  of someone  for the purpose of involuntary labor or commercial sex act through the use of  force, fraud, or coercion.

We understand that sexual abuse/trafficking is not a new phenomenon.  The names have changed, evolved  so to speak, to match the times but, women and children have been exploited since before  biblical times and in every culture of the world.

In this country sexual abuse /rape goes far back as 1492 in the founding of America by Christopher Columbus.

“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek….  To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD…. To appoint unto them that mourn in  Zion,  to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness…the planting of the LORD, that He might be glorified.”  Isaiah 61: 1-3.

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done it is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun”.  Ecclesiastes 1:9.

Source:  Columbia University https://freedomandcitizenship https://allintulane.edu www.rainn.org/articles/casaveact.org