Ellie's+Letter+to+the+News+Networks

> Dear _ Network: > > Stop. Before you dismiss this letter I ask you to read this. During your news broadcasts, your news correspondents and anchors talk about current events. I have noticed, however, that one event is rarely brought up. t Slavery... yes this is still a current event. Modern day slavery exists, and it exists in the United States. How can our country say that we believe in freedom when every day people are forced into captivity, having their human rights and freedom taken away? > > One slavery topic that is present today in the United States is the human sex trade. The human sex trade is filled with young girls who are deprived of their future and education because they are forced into brothels, and made to have sex with strangers. This happens every day.I am a fifteen year old girl and While I go to school, there is a girl who is being forced to have sex while she could be getting an education. As a young woman from the United States, I feel very strongly against the human sex trade. You, as men and women from the United States should feel the same way.

I ask you, if you know a young girl, imagine if she was abducted one day, that she was simply taken away and you never saw her again. Every day she would be forced to have sex with strangers. She wouldl be abused, and there would be no one to help. But you can. Now.. According to CBN NEWS,__ 300,000 children are forced into sex slavery in the United States every year. We don't know how many aren't reported. Help lower this number by raising awareness about human sex trade in the United States. Once people are aware, people will care. Please help create change, for the children and for the United States of America.

Sincerely -Elinor Brelis