Shocking data from the government show that of the missing children reported to have been sexually trafficked in 2017, 88% of them come from the US foster care system.

News taken from the free thought project 12 de junio de 2018

America has a dark secret that no one wants to admit. Talking about this secret will make you label it as conspiracy theorist, false news, and the outlets that report will have an organic reach accelerated by social networks and Google. Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, many in the media and the government refuse to see this real epidemic of child trafficking in the United States. ### Moreover, according to government data, the vast majority of a portion of these trafficked children comes from the country's own parenting care system.

Children are unnecessarily torn from households at such an alarming rate that hundreds of parents in a state have come to create an anti-kidnapping organization to stop it.

As TFTP reported last week, a parental rights organization filed a letter to the federal court last Tuesday to ask a federal judge to override Minnesota's current child protection laws for being too expansive and to get the Children from loving and safe homes without due process.

"Families are being abused, and in some cases, they are being destroyed as a result of laws that are inappropriate," said Dwight Mitchell, the principal plaintiff in the case and founder of the parent association. "This is a legal kidnapping."

This legal kidnapping is occurring in states across the country and is contributing to the actual epidemic of child trafficking. The reality of such practices within the United States adoption system is downright appalling.

In 1984, the United States Congress established the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and, as part of the reauthorization of Missing Child Assistance Act of 2013, receive $40 million to study and track children Disappeared and victims of trafficking in the United States.

In 2017, NCMEC helped law enforcement with more than 27.000 cases of missing children, most of whom were considered fugitives in danger of extinction.

According to his most recent report, based on FBI data and his own, of the nearly 25.000 fugitives reported to the NCMEC in 2017, one in seven were probably victims of child sex trafficking. Of these, 88 percent were in the care of social services when they disappeared.

Showing the extent of abuse, only in 2017, the CyberTipline of NCMEC, a national mechanism for public and electronic service providers to report suspected cases of child sexual exploitation, received more than 10 million of reports. According to NCMEC, most of these tips were related to the following:

Apparent images of child sexual abuse.

Online attraction, which includes "sextortion".

Child sex trafficking.

Child sexual abuse.

Other government organizations have corroborated this horrific trend. In a raid of 70 FBI cities nationwide, 60 percent of victims came from foster homes or group homes. In 2014, the new York authorities estimated that 85 per cent of the victims of sex trafficking were previously in the child welfare system. In 2012, the Connecticut police rescued 88 children from sex trafficking; 86 were from the child welfare system.

Equally as disturbing as the fact that most child victims of sexual trafficking come from the system is the fact that the FBI discovered in 2014 that many foster children rescued from sex traffickers, including children of only 11 years , were never reported as missing. Welfare authorities

Last year, TFTP reported an example of this lack of reports from Topeka, Kansas. In the shocking report, it was found that the Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF), which supervises foster care in the state, lost 70 children after a high profile case of three missing sisters caught the attention of the authorities.

This has to stop.

It should be noted that there are certainly cases of abusive parents who should not have custody of their children. There are also many kind and caring foster parents willing to accept them. However, as noted in the recent case in Minnesota, many times these children are torn from loving homes and forced into a system full of abuse and trafficking.

A frightening example of children that the state unnecessarily removes their parents only to be severely damaged in government custody comes from Arizona, the state kidnapped a 5-year-old girl from her mother who had a suspected substance abuse problem and L A placed directly in the hands of a leader of a child sexual ring.

Even after the girl's mother recovered from her addiction, the state refused to return her daughter. Worse still, the mother discovered that her daughter was being sexually abused on several occasions and that no action was taken to get her daughter out of the state system.

Unfortunately, children from all over the United States are withdrawn from affectionate parents who have admitted to having consumed marijuana or other drugs. While there is no national account of how many parents lose custody of their children each year due to marijuana, Keith Stroup, founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) told the Daily Chronic that his team receives calls "Three or four" times a week of people who have lost custody of their children because they were positive at birth or in a situation where parents are fighting for custody. "This kidnapping even happens in regions where marijuana is legal.

Even high-level government officials have been caught up in these abuse-fostering scandals. As TFTP reported earlier, several victims showed up and accused the mayor of Seattle, Ed Murray, of sexually abusing them as children in the Washington foster care system.

The records in that case, dating back to 1984, explicitly stated that Ed Murray "should never again be used as a CSD certified resource for children." He also showed that prosecutors filed a criminal lawsuit against Murray, but despite multiple accusations, charges were somehow never filed and his files buried.

As Snopes and the media in general try to discredit those who try to draw attention to the supposed and very real trafficking of children, the government's own data show how irresponsible this is. While it is true that some extravagant theories are presented online, the facts are extravagant enough to justify serious scrutiny. Until this epidemic is taken seriously, the government, the media, and all those who deny it will continue to be complicit in keeping it running.

As Michael Dolce, who specializes in these horrific cases of child abuse, said earlier this year, "we have established a system for the sexual trafficking of American children." We actually have.

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