id: 1351449 - Text: I’ve noticed that when moms think their daughters only want attention, or do everything for attention, a lot of the time it’s because they are mad that their boyfriend/kids father has had eyes for their daughter. Almost like a jealousy. Some of them, they know their daughters were sexually assaulted even and are mad that the daughter attracted a man’s attention. Not always but this happens often!
id: 1351484 - Text: Am I the only one who is looking at a sex trafficked victim? This little girl is obviously being trafficked.
id: 1351513 - Text: Yeah, right kids who parents travel don't go and become a prostitute, this girl is covering up, the mom is embarrassed because her daughter was rapped but her mom told her to be quiet and say nothing happened to you. We are not stupid runaways involved in sex trafficking are mostly rape victims.
id: 1351575 - Text: I can imagine in the generation of Camera's and you tube famous, these children dont know how to compartmentalize sexuality and youth. That mother could be trying to educate her child on her reputation and how they could effect their entire family. I did feel she spoke in the fist video like an eloquent child, raised well. Not someone being raised the way she described
id: 1351808 - Text: This is an absolute tragedy. I wish SWU would do something to rehabilitate these children.
The child has clearly been sexualized at a young age. Children at that age do not understand that what is right or wrong. They normalize being abused as a normal thing because they do not know any better. Especially if they have been groomed they find it very hard to come to terms with the fact that they were abused and it was wrong.
A child of that age doesnt easily take to prostitution unless sexualization has occurred and sexual abuse was normalized in their childhood. Thats a very strong indicator in this case.
In my country it is a crime to not report CSA.. Child sexual abuse to Child protection services. It is mandatory to report CSA. We have a special act called POCSO ( Protection of Children from sexual offences) act for this.
Not sure how it is in the US
id: 1351811 - Text: @Docneel Excellent point ... but not all who have had early exposure to sexual behaviour or abuse, become prostitutes. There are other forms of abuse / trauma ... i.e. physical / emotional abuse ... which may predispose a child to deviant behaviour ... including destructive / ineffective parenting.
There is an obvious disconnect between the child and her mother, despite the hand-holding. The mother mentions yelling at the child ... indicating some level of volatility within the household.
Also neglect ... which seems to be a contributing factor within this family. The child is desperate for her mother’s attention. Often, running away is one way for a child to get attention. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
When kids run away from home, they’re not exactly surrounded by angels ... but rather a sordid array of delinquents and deviants. Street culture can facilitate deviant behaviour ... criminal behaviour ... including prostitution ... just to support themselves.
id: 1351812 - Text: @virtuallyme2518 I agree. The third part is even more of a tragedy. Just watched it today. I somehow feel the pregnancy could have been avoided if the child was rehabilitated adequately in the first instance.
She reports being raped by someone in her home( her mother’s boyfriend if im not mistaken). This is clearly a result of the neglect by the mother.
There is also an indication she might have been trafficked.
She is a victim of chronic abuse- both emotional and sexual and neglect.
Are there special long term homes for these kids in the US? where they have access to continued care and psychological services. I believe sending them to a foster home before they get adequate therapy might make things worse.
id: 1351833 - Text: Yep she’s a trafficking victim - child sex trafficking and this is exactly how it goes down.
These people on this comment thread have sad levels of ignorance about child sex trafficking.
This girl needs a supervised environment. Full stop.
Her mother needs help on how to mother. She’s very disconnected.
Generational trauma sucks.
Without a specific trafficking recovery program, it is nearly guaranteed she will immediately get preyed upon by another trafficker.
They know immediately when they see a child who’s already been “broken in”, and they look for kids just like her, first.
I’m a survivor. I was young when it started, trusted adult male extended family member. Very common. This whole “boyfriend” trafficker dynamic this girl was groomed with us another very common scenario.
People are so ignorant.
This is a very VERY LEGITIMATE survivor story.
The Stockholm syndrome/trauma bond/brainwashing is extreme.
People actually think that a child dealing with sexual slavery trauma needs to be in tears, openly exposing her vulnerability.
Survivors that make it long term after child trafficking are those of us whose neurological/brain response is to container-ize the trauma, shield up and armor up, try to bury it and just move forward from it.
Therapy is critical.
Without a supervised trafficking recovery program, sadly this girls chances of getting trafficked again are very high.
This video violates both her rights as a minor victim, AND puts her in very serious harms way.
Other traffickers will ABSOLUTELY be lined-up to approach her. From the second she gets back to Kansas.
People need to be educated, experienced professionals to engage with HT survivors in any way- let alone like this on a platform.
If her former trafficker and his gang find this, and her, the outcome for her and her whole family could be absolutely tragic.
Traffickers see these girls at that age (the most requested ages by grown men for prostitution are ages 13-15 nowadays!! Over ANY age group - (men have degraded into pedophilia, it is sickening), and what a trafficker cares about is the $300Gs a year of 99% pure profit he just lost when this girl got out of his grasp.
MOST children are deceased within five years.
Never seen ever again.
This video is totally an example of how lack of education and expertise, and “unintended” serious harm happens in vulnerable populations.
This little girl should NOT EVER be answering ANY questions or speaking with ANY adult male- about any of her experiences of an exploitative sexually abusive nature.
She can’t even look at him because she’s a LITTLE GIRL with a damned adult male stranger engaging in a totally inappropriate conversation with her.
Way to reinforce predatory grooming practices, bruh.
We don’t ever have girl survivors matched with ANY adult males for ANYTHING ever in rescue/recovery/support in CSET…!
Not even therapists!!
Women only- and ALWAYS ALWAYS survivor leader expert -advocates are sought after to be brought in and work with these girls, and always present at any interview/even with law enforcement and attorneys.
Child survivor’s brain functions are thrown into a trauma trigger state around adult men. It’s very destabilizing for them.
The whole damn reason she “seems so mature for her age”- which this foolish interviewer mentions to her, no less, is because she has been TAUGHT how to ACT around grown men. Taught what they respond to, want, like, and how to make them feel related to an at ease… (with their sickness…)
It is NOT healthy OR productive to have her in ANY space where she shifts into victimization/adult role play mode.
EVER.
He also keeps reinforcing HARMFUL myths to her…
Very much a NO NO NO, TF NOoooo with these kiddos.
Statements which place ANY blame on her at age thirteen will absolutely do NOTHING but shame her, and prevent her healing.
This whole “you have so much going for you, you’re so mature,” nonsense is literally the VERY stuff that should NOT be said to these survivors.
Positive reinforcement of them NOT acting exactly how a thirteen year old child SHOULD be acting-
Immaturely- because they are indeed a juvenile and NOT mature, reassures her that trying to be a “grown woman” is a highly desirable trait.
Girls of color are especially pressured and seen as “mature” and are sexualized and trafficked at the highest rates. Black, mixed, indigenous, LatinX/Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, Islander, Mediterranean girls are all heavily sought after as “exotic” fetishes and seen as sexually viable “women” to FAR too many men, especially in countries with a lot of white men.
I’m mixed race and sadly fit into that category and heard grown man after grown man talk about my “exotic looks/eyes/hair/bodily features”- it is a sick world out there.
These are NOT teenage prostitutes.
These are child sex trafficking victims/survivors. They are severely harmed and abused children.
I know the kinds of absolutely degrading and dehumanizing things this child has been through and is NOT opening-up about.
It took me over twenty years to ever be able to talk about actual incidents and the worst trauma.
The feelings of shame and worthlessness she’s experienced cannot be described.
She’s great at masking.
I was the same way.
Still am, but it helps me stay together to help others now.
id: 1351836 - Text: @virtuallyme2518 this isn’t deviant behavior. It’s called being victimized by ADULTS.
It’s not prostitution.
It is child sex trafficking in its ACTUAL MOST COMMON presentation.
This isn’t Hollywood out here
Ask me what I do for a living and what I survived in my horrible childhood,
What keeps kids like her from getting real help that actually heals and lasts is all of this adultification/blame they experience.
Take some online trainings about CSET
I give them to all kinds of agencies and healthcare and education professionals regularly.
Everyone needs to get educated to prevent further and continued harm, and harmful narratives need to be called out for the myths they are and ended.
These are children.
Not mini deviant-adults
id: 1351839 - Text: @chrysallis2735 It IS deviant behaviour... which may have been perpetrated by adult victimisation, because it falls outside social norms. It is ALSO prostitution, which may have been actuated by adult neglect/abuse, etc... pimps/parents/society... the govt, in all its shortfalls/failures/neglect, etc. Also... the word, “prostitution” means, engaging in sexual activity with someone for payment”... whatever the reason... a person’s age, gender, socioeconomic background, etc. They may be exploited, yes... but the act of selling sex for money... is called, “prostitution”. I understand you’re outraged... not only by your own experiences (for which you have my heartfelt compassion)... and in defence of this girl... but I think you need to have some camomile and simply consider the basic meaning of my words. I stand by what I said...