HF 1958

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.