Peer Interview Questions

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What do you think is a good way to help people who have been victims of the sex trafficking industry? !ow do you think we can completely eradicate sex trafficking? !ow would you react if you knew this type of business was going on in your neighborhood?

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(ictims of abuse have had their lives shattered. )hey will suffer from post*traumatic stress and low self*esteem. )hey need to know that as human individuals they have dignity and worth. )hey are worthy of being treated as an end and not as a means. +ust treats people as things and as a means to satisfy they luster. +ove reaches out to another person for the sake of that person because love is giving, not taking. (ictims need to be loved and made a part of the community of the honest and law abiding and religious. -nly people can restore what people what people have destroyed. )hese victims need to attend concerts in their honor and receive prayers in religious assembly and continue to have their stories told through books so that they might find healing. I think sex slavery can be abolished the same way slave labor was abolished. William Wilberforce tirelessly introduced bills into Parliament, wrote op*eds in the paper, distributed tracts highlighting the plight of the slaves. !e took people to see the boats and witness the inhumanity. -thers .oined the peaceful call for the end of slavery. Wilberforce continued to make speeches in Parliament describing the wretched treatment of slaves the way /artin +uther %ing went from one church to another and from one monument to another to decry, peacefully, man0s in.ustice against man. We can add our voice to

theirs until the dull hum of voices becomes a thunder of protest that cannot be ignored.
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If sex trafficking was occurring in my neighborhood, I would be outraged1 2ut, it would be necessary to act .udiciously as criminals often act as wild, cornered animals. I would tell the police and do what I could do to shine a light brighter until they scurry away like roaches. $!./.'

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People who have been victims of sex trafficking are going to need much support once they are rescued from the hell they have been sub.ected to. 3ot only are they going to need medical $physical' attention, but they will need psychological counseling to deal with the trauma they have been exposed to. )hey will need to be supported and let them know they are now safe from their captors or pimps and they can now start the long .ourney of healing to become whole. )each them they can be loved and are worthy as people. )he only way to get rid of sex trafficking is to find a way to cure people0s perverted, filthy, lustful, self*satisfying desires. -nly when people truly become more concerned about their neighbor, more than their self, is when this terrible atrocity will end. &all the police, the 42I, the 5tate !ighway Patrol. )his is too terrible to be happening anywhere11

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Peer #" $6.7.' 1. 8 way to help victims of the sex trafficking industry is to keep people with them to help build up their confidence in themselves again. 5ince the industry is very wrong and hurtful to the victim, the person could lose hope in themselves. )he responsibility of gaining

their hope back should fall on us as citi9ens to help them get back on their feet and reali9e that they aren0t .ust a product but rather a well* crafted human being who has a purpose in life. . 8 way to stop sex trafficking all together is to monitor well known trafficking areas that have come from victim information. If we can stop several sex trafficking industries so that others will start to hopefully to slow down in fear of being found out. /onitoring streets for situations involving kidnappings of the girls could also help, but the most important thing is probably .ust to use information to find some of the industries until they either stop or the authorities have them all. ". 4or me, if I knew this was going on in my neighborhood, it would frighten me dearly. %nowing that this type of highly illegal activity can happen very close from my house is astonishing. )hat would always keep me on my toes because of the madmen who control the industry living .ust probably yards away from me would cause me to become paranoid, especially if I were to have a sister who was a teenager who had the risk of being kidnapped. )hat type of business happening around me would make me go insane with emotions regarding the fear and paranoia. Peer # : $6.;.' 1. I would think a good way to get help for those who have been in the sex trafficking would be to get them as far away from the place they have been held as they could. If they have been illegally taken from their family, I would reunite them with their family. 5urrounding these victims with love and encouragement and supporting them as best as we can I think would help these girls tremendously. I can0t imagine the trauma and nightmares they may have, so bringing in psychiatrists and counsellors to aid them with everything they have had to go through.

. 4rom what little I know, this happens in )hailand and (ietman the most. )he international community needs to step in and help these countries put into place monitoring and enforcements to help prevent this from happening ". I would be extremely frightened if this were happening in my neighborhood1 I would call the police immediately. I would notify my community watch to be on the lookout for any suspicious activity. Peer # < $P.6.' 1. I think some ways to help people who have been in the sex trafficking industry would be to get them in a program that would help them to start healing all the wounds from then horrible deeds that have been done to them. =ust like with a drug rehab program, it would be a program where you are with others who are recovering from the same type of problem. !ere there would be a freedom and willingness to be open and share. +ove, encouragement and support through all stages of a person0s recovery. . What is the stuff they put in prison0s food? 5alt*peter? )ough >uestion, considering the sensual world we live in. =ust walk down the street and you0re bombarded with sexual images. )he world is full of perverts, how can we get rid of them? )hat would be the first step. ". /an, I would rage. )o think that this was happening right under my nose. I would call the police. )here is no type of .ustice for a person who would terrori9e children in that way.