lifenews.com
2026-02-13
Each year sex trafficking claims an estimated 100,000 new victims in the US and in various forms enslaves as many as 400,000 young people. Shockingly, the average age of enslavement of girls is 12-14 years. While public awareness of sex trafficking is growing, sadly most Americans have yet to comprehend just how deeply its ugly tentacles have infiltrated American society. Sex trafficking is literally all around us--hiding in plain sight, if we know what to look for.
Abortion is crucial to keeping the sex trafficking industry humming. The abortion industry knowingly participates by looking the other way when pimps or other representatives of this underworld trade bring pregnant trafficking victims to abortion facilities. Of the three to five girls a pimp controls, at least two will have an abortion; many will have more than one.
I recently interviewed four women who have intimate knowledge of sex trafficking. Two were victims; all four now actively work to end human trafficking, which can involve prostitution or slave labor.
Marlene Carson was a teenager from a solid family when she fell victim to sex trafficking. Her dad, who played saxophone for BB King, and her mom, who stayed home with the kids, had built a stable Christian home for Marlene and her four older siblings.
The predators, Richard and his wife, moved into the neighborhood and set about befriending nearby families. They became trusted friends.