Last year, my Green Bay Packers went to the Super Bowl. The glory of this moment - and their win over the Pittsburgh Steelers - was tainted by my newly discovered knowledge that the Super Bowl is one of the largest child sex trafficking events in America. Pimps kidnap and transport young girls and boys across state lines - and last year, since the game was in Dallas, across national borders - in order to provide young prostitutes for willing customers.
Thanks to Trafficking 911 and Change.org word of this horrific practice was spread to the American people, and the NFL players themselves spoke out against this horrid practice in the form of public service announcements. The FBI and the Texas Attorney General's office worked in conjunction with local airlines to spot the young victims of sex trafficking, but there is still so much more that needs to be done.
As of this writing, my Packers are 8 - 0 on the season! They stand a very good chance of returning to the big dance this year, which will be held in Indianapolis. What troubles me is that, according to the scant bit of research I have done so far for this project (a social cause website against child sex traffickign at the Super Bowl), America's heartland is the core of the American sex trafficking trade. With young girls seeking to leave home and find their fortune outside of the rural confines of the Midwest, they are prime targets for those who would take advantage of them sexually.
I love my team, and I love the NFL; but I will boycott all that has anything to do with the NFL if they don't step up their game against child sex trafficking.
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