News Review, New York Times

I was shocked as I flipped through the "New York Times" Tuesday, November 9. On page A21, under the headline "National Briefing" was a tiny article titled "Arrests Made in Child Sex Trade" 69 prostitutes all under the age of 17 were found in the United States. Many of them as young as 12. I was horrified as this article seemed unreal; and yet, here it was, the truth of sex slavery shoved into this little corner of the paper. My stomach turned as thought of myself and my sisters at the young age of 12: carefree, eager, pure. And yet these little girls, although they had made it here to the greatest nation on earth, were experiencing none of that, and now they never would.
I am Currently reading "The Road of Lost Innocence" By Somaly Mam. It is her story of forced prostitution in Cambodia and what she is doing to change the cycle of perversion in her home country. To see the very evil she is fighting growing and poisoning my own country is heart breaking. I am ashamed that this atrocity was nothing more than a blurb on a back page of the news paper. I am ashamed that my fellow countrymen don't seem to care that these little girls had their very hope and innocence stolen from them. I am ashamed that I personally don't know how to fight this dark demon. So, I am posting, I am standing to say it is not okay with me that this goes on in my country and I will arm myself with education so I know what my next step will be in stopping this destruction.