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A human trafficking ring in Malaysia charges men around $6,000 for Vietnamese women to marry. The women were originally told that they would be working as waitresses before being held by the traffickers and sold off to the men with false documents.
In the U.S. State of Georgia, men pay $600 to have sex with a 12 year old girl. The girl was being sold by a man who was baby sitting the girl while her mother was at work. The man filled the 12 year old girl with drugs and alcohol before having sex with her and selling her to other men.
Up to 90 percent of the prostitutes in Bangladesh take a steroid in order to appear older and be able to service more clients in a day, with most averaging around 15 clients per day. The sex customers in Bangladesh pay $0.60 cents for each visit. The girls pay $0.18 cents for their steroids.
Women and girls are sold by human traffickers in Mozambique for as little as $2 to as high as $1,000.
The Attorney General for the state of Indiana reported that there were 68 prostitution arrests during Super Bowl 2012 in Indianapolis. Police also rescued two human trafficking victims during the weeks surrounding the Super Bowl.
In Siem Riep, Cambodia tuk-tuk drivers asked the men on B Squad, “You want boom boom? I take you to lady.”
In Phnom Penh, Cambodia I met a 14-year-old girl on a bench outside an ice cream parlor. She was waiting for her younger sister and an older white male. I asked, “How do you know that man inside?” In a rehearsed response with a terrified look on her face she said in perfect English, “We are friends, I have known him nine years, we don’t live here, we are on vacation, we live in another province.” When they walked away she looked back with tears in her eyes.
These are the facts and images that are on my heart. I'm asking that you join me in interceding for the men and women enslaved in this industry. Jesus came that these horrors might be obliterated. Why not ask God for big things?
