Human trafficking finally getting deserved attention

ANDREW MATYSIK EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AJM122@CABRINI.EDU

Society has grown accustomed to daily horrors like suicide bombings, nuclear tension and local violence. Everyday the media shows graphic portrayals of violence that get worse with each tragedy.

A new tragedy, silent for years but now a billiondollar industry, has been slowly emerging from the darkest shadows into the international spotlight. The disturbing practice is human trafficking and it has grown out of control.

Human trafficking subjects primarily women and children to slave-like working conditions, sexual imprisonment and complete disregard for any type of human dignity. Displaced women and children from regions.of civil war and harsh economic conditions are sold for the amount the average American citizen would spend on a tank of gas, or less.

One would assume such inhumane conditions inflicted on another human being would never occur in the 21st century.

The American public and the entire world, however, have been slapped in the face with the real conditions of this ~ruesome practice. Unbelievably, there are still millions of people completely oblivious to the human trafficking mdustry.