{"id":1047,"date":"2013-08-21T02:27:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T02:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2016-01-04T02:31:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T02:31:12","slug":"child-sex-trafficking-21st-centurys-moral-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=1047","title":{"rendered":"Child sex trafficking: 21st century&#8217;s moral panic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1048\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/130822Lee.jpg\" alt=\"130822Lee\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>Aug. 21, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cSome advocates have suggested secure facilities for America\u2019s child sex trafficking victims&#8230;. Such facilities force troubled children into a system of care that may be just as exploitive as with a pimp\/trafficker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cCountless women continue to seek restitution for the sexual abuse by employees assigned to supervise them while in detention in the \u201960s and \u201970s \u2013 some of these women have children fathered by detention employees&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cSo then why do we talk about secure facilities for child victims of sex trafficking? Because \u2018sex is at issue\u2019 in their victimization&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cChild sex trafficking is not the first social issue to create moral panic around physical and sexual abuse. In the \u201980s, Satanic Ritual Abuse garnered self-proclaimed experts, national media attention, law enforcement mobilizations, federal funding, excitement and hysteria. By the \u201990s official investigations produced no evidence of widespread conspiracies and only a small number of crimes were verified&#8230;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/dr-lois-lee\/residential-programs-for-_b_3536472.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Residential Programs<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0for America&#8217;s Child Sex Trafficking Victims:\u00a0Secure or Non-Secure Facilities?\u201d by Dr. Lois Lee, founder and president,\u00a0Children of the Night, at Huffington Post (July 9, 2013)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 21, 2013 \u201cSome advocates have suggested secure facilities for America\u2019s child sex trafficking victims&#8230;. Such facilities force troubled children into a system of care that may be just as exploitive as with a pimp\/trafficker. \u201cCountless women continue to seek restitution for the sexual abuse by employees assigned to supervise them while in detention in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}