Read through this tale of modern slavery:
NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) –
Law enforcement and rescuers of sex slaves report that because of a saturation of human trafficking in the deep South, more human traffickers are bringing young girls to Middle Tennessee.“The trafficker said to them (slaves) on the way here, I’m taking you to Nashville because I can make more money off you there,” said Derri Smith, executive director of End Slavery.
Sex crimes detectives said that Nashville is part of a four-city human trafficking “loop” that also includes Birmingham, Memphis and Atlanta.
“It’s almost like a circuit,” said an undercover Metro sex crimes detective.
Investigators said the girls are taken from city to city.
The TBI estimates in Davidson and Coffee counties there have been more than 200 recent cases of minors being sold into slavery.
Photographs obtained by the Channel 4 I-Team from law enforcement show the circumstances where the girls are kept.
One photograph shows a gun in a bathtub where a girl was duct-taped and left for hours.
Another shows the kinds of tickets, often seen in carnivals, that are used to sell the girls.
One group of photos shows shrines set up in hotel rooms to Santa Muerte, a kind of cult, where pimps pray for protections from cops and other competition.
“The youngest investigation I’ve worked was on a 12-year-old,” said the undercover detective.
This is horrific. If there is a worse evil on this earth than sexual slavery, I don’t know what it is (and I don’t want to know). Read through the whole article. It is horrible. This is the kind of life that many of the young people that are being sent in waves to the United States are finding themselves in. Coyotes who are already defying the laws of America on one point aren’t going to shy at defying them on another. Not when there is money to be made.
We think of slavery as something that is in the dim past, but it is really here in the present. This kind of thing goes on. How common is it? I don’t think anybody knows. The professional grievance mongers who flog the dead horse of Southern Slavery 150 years ago don’t seem to care about a little girl chained in a basement today, and law enforcement isn’t especially seeking these deviants out, either. There’s money to be made in busting big cocaine rings, property to be seized, and civil forfeiture to be had. With slavery rings, not so much. Much of the “wealth” of a slave ring is in the chattel themselves. It isn’t like the local sheriff’s department is going to auction off a load of 15 year old girls.
Slavery is offensive to me. It is one of the worst evils to come from the mind of fallen man. The Idea that I can take you and through violence compel you to do my work is repugnant. The Idea that I can milk the sweat of your brow to my sustenance through force is vile. Sexual slavery is the worst and most despicable form of slavery, and it is being practiced today, here in the United States. If that doesn’t make you angry, I question your humanity.
