On the Front Lines Fighting the sex slave trade in women and children

Impatience and apathy are traits of the news media in the United States especially in regard to chronic humanitarian issues. Current disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes will get attention during their peak and immediate aftermath. When a toddler falls into a well and is trapped, the nation and the media holds its breath for two days until she is freed. But reports of thousands of children around the world succumbing daily to preventable causes appear to be too routine for the mass media. The subject of modern slavery is also relegated to an occasional story but not often enough to keep the public apprised of the epidemic nature of this horrible crime. Outside of the attention of activists and government statisticians, few know that current estimates of the number of people living in slavery conditions today (estimated between 12 million and 27 million) outnumbers the entire population of people enslaved during the 350 years of the transatlantic slave trade.