Under-age sex trade booming at Super Bowl

Mickey Goodman
The Independent
February 7, 2011

Pimps will traffic thousands of under-age prostitutes to Texas for today’s Super Bowl, hoping to do business with men arriving for the big game with money to burn, child rights advocates said.

The country’s largest sporting event, the game between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers will make the Dallas-Fort Worth area a magnet for business of all kinds, including the multimillion- dollar, under-age sex industry, said activists. Authorities are trying to combat the annual spike in trafficking of under-age girls that coincides with the game.

“The Super Bowl is one of the biggest human trafficking events in the United States,” Greg Abbott, the attorney general for Texas, told a recent trafficking prevention meeting. Up to 300,000 girls between 11 and 17 are lured into the US sex industry annually, according to a 2007 report sponsored by the Department of Justice and written by the non-profit group Shared Hope International. Some 90 per cent of runaways and children whose parents force them to leave home fall into the trade and are often beaten, drugged, raped or imprisoned to force compliance, said the report.

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This article was posted: Monday, February 7, 2011 at 5:16 am

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