Imagine being beaten, abducted and sold off to any of the human trafficking trades, being away from family member, friends and everything that you know. Taken away to a different part of the world, often being change from place to place so you wouldn’t recognized where you are. Sold to slavery, prostitution or forced labor, thinking and imaging of when you will be or ever be saved by someone. Taken advantage of as if your life doesn’t matter, getting to a point of which a rescue would not be sufficient, due to the emotional distress and physical pain that has been caused upon you. Being able to see other people walk the streets or pass by in their car, seeing the freedom that they have, while you remember of the time that you had your freedom…show more content… Anyone can fall victim to human trafficking and can happen anywhere in world, all the way from rural countries to developed industrialized places, such as here in the U.S. I’ve been researching this intriguing topic for the last couple of weeks, and I found many jaw-dropping facts about the amount of human trafficking that is happening here in the U.S. The United States has come to be the largest destination of human trafficking from the city of Atlanta in Georgia to the city of San Francisco in California. In order to understand why human trafficking has grown to where it is now we must learn what goes on and happens to a person that has been abducted by and offered to do various things that consist with human trafficking. Consequently, we need to look at what is causing human trafficking to grow in to such a lucrative business around the world…show more content… will help people better understand why watching the signs of human trafficking can not only help the person in need, but will also help the society in which they live in. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has given insight on what human trafficking consists of stating that it’s the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons. (UNODC 2010) Stating that human trafficking consists of three main points, an action, a means and a purpose. Which starts off with the abduction of the person, the first means of human trafficking. It can be anything from abducting a girl walking on the streets alone, at night, to the payment of debts that are owed from a specific family, offering themselves or offering their children as payment for the debts. After the abduction of the victim the human traffickers commit, the action of human trafficking, where the victim is usually beaten, threaten, and/or raped several times, in order to put the victim in a vulnerable state in which the threat of the victim leaving is minimize, so that he/she would not want to leave knowing the consequences of being caught are higher than that of staying put. Having the victim in a vulnerable state the human traffickers do, the purpose of human trafficking, in which they will find what to do with the victim. There are many trades in human trafficking in which the
