Child sex trafficking

This is of course the new moral panic. The ridiculous and bizarre Q-Anon phenomenon has some number of millions of people believing that there is a global conspiracy of prominent Democratic politicians, Hollywood stars and rich people that kidnaps and rapes children, then murders them and extracts a substance from their blood that gives people eternal youth, or something like that; and that God Emperor Ronald T. Dump is going to blow the lid off the whole thing any day now. (Gee I wonder what he ' s been waiting for.) While that is generally not given credence by sane people, the perpetrators have been trying to mainstream it by the backdoor of ginning up a crusade against what they tell people isa massive epidemic of child sex trafficking, without mentioning the Q-Anon conspiracy. Since it ' s possible that many people who are paying only casual attention, I expect the belief that this is a big problem is widespread.Actually it isn ' t. As Michael Hobbes explains, the actual story is complicated, but it isn ' t what people think. The number of children who are literally kidnapped and sexually exploited in the U.S. is not exactly known, but it ' s probably in the low hundreds at the most. And this has nothing to do with shadowy international cartels, it ' s done by plain old American criminals. Yet we hear numbers bandied about in the hundreds of thousands. What these numbers actually refer to is kids who are runaways or " throwaways, " whose home environments are s...
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