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HF 1958

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

HF 1958

CHLOE ZWEBER

CHILD SEX TRAFFIKING

  • Approximately 300,000 children are at risk of being prostituted in the United States.
  • The average age of entry into prostitution for a child victim in the United States is 13-14 years.
  • The average victim may be forced to have sex up to 20-48 times a day.
  • There are less then ten beds reserved for adolescents coming from sex trafficking.

Many of the kids have no place go home to.

WHY?

  • Some children may come back pregnant
  • Some come back with drug addictions
  • Others com back totally different people.
  • And their families reject them.
  • Some families go as far as kicking there children out.

WHAT HF 1958 WILL DO.

  • Hf 1958 was created specifically to create shelters for adolescent victims.

The shelters

SHELTERS

  • The shelters will provide counciling for emotional damage
  • There will be treatment for drug dependency
  • All shelters will be run buy the nonprofit organization 180 degrees .
  • The shelters and programs are granted $1,500,000, from the state yearly.

WHY YOU SHOULD SUPOTR THIS BILL.

  • 1164 juveniles were arrested and put in to juvenile detention, then released onto the streets.
  • Some parents refuse there children leavening them with no place to go.
  • Not only will the shelters provide a safe place they also provides specific help for some individual's.
  • Some children have been in trafficking for so long they don't remember there families.

CITATION

  • Powell, Joy. "State report calls for a Safe Harbor for trafficked kids." Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) 19 Jan. 2013: Points of View Reference Center.
  • Walsh, Paul. "With $1 million, Minnesota agency intensifies effort against sex trafficking of minors." Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) 27 Jan. 2014: Points of View Reference Center. Web. 13 Feb. 2014.