Flesh trade targets natives

[ccharles000]

On the street corners of Canada's largest cities, thousands of women are bought and sold every night.

Most of them, experts say, are aboriginal and an alarming number are trafficked.

"There's a total myth that Aboriginal women either consent to or are born into the sex trade," says Jo-Ann Daniels, interim executive director for the Metis Settlements General Council in Edmonton. "The average age of Aboriginal girls who are human trafficked is between seven and 12 years old."

In a four-part series running across the country this week, Sun Media looks at Canada's hidden trade in people; at the failure of this country to live up to its international obligations on human trafficking, to prosecute human traffickers and meaningfully help victims.

"It is Aboriginal girls and women who are specifically targeted in this country to be trafficked, in such huge numbers that it does not compare to any other population," Daniels says. "We believe that it is the root source of Aboriginal women ever being involved in the sex trade. We believe that Aboriginal women and Aboriginal girls have been domestically trafficked now for, I would say probably since the '50s when there began to be Aboriginal movement into urban areas or there were more contacts between Aboriginal communities and towns."

http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2008/09/29/6916776-sun.html

[Taverner]

1. Because the sources of income on the reservations are scarce

Unless they are working in the Oil Sands biz - and FTR I think its much more moral and ethical to be a hooker than it is to work in that scourge of the environment

The real truth is that the US and Canada have removed any way for the small town to compete - with manufacturing sent off to other places

[SoCalDem]

2. The really sick thing about this is the MEN who "want" a 7 yr old

:grr:

[MineralMan]

3. Always the case, actually.

Arrest the johns and feed and house the hookers. That's my plan.

[virgogal]

4. Canada? The oh-so-perfect Canada? Naaaah !