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Piscina ago

Native children are easy pickings in Alaska. Alaska has a HUGE problem with exploitation of its indigenous women and girls. There is generational trauma, which makes it easier for them to be preyed upon. They're more likely to be homeless and vulnerable. There's poverty. These girls are more likely to be groomed and then trafficked. These girls are easy targets: people are less likely to care about native girls and women being sex trafficked, pimped out and raped.

Native American children are overrepresented [in foster care] at a rate that is 2.7 times their rate in the general population” and as many as 40 percent of Native children and youth live in poverty. The same factors which contribute to the marginalization of Native youth in society as a whole, also contribute to their heightened vulnerability to human trafficking.

Native communities also experience an additional layer of risk from intergenerational trauma patterns associated with the history of tribal relocations, boarding schools, and large-scale adoptions of Native children. These unique historical experiences have increased the likelihood that Native women and girls will encounter situations of exploitation at some point in their lives.

http://humantraffickingcenter.org/disproportionate-impacts-human-trafficking-native-communities/

YogSoggoth ago

Agree. Local/State law enforcement could be in on this as well, but it could just be a weird perv. If you were into that kind of thing, would you not target an area with more children? One more thing to consider is the ratio of guns to humans. Anchorage needs women desperately per capita. Only a couple roads lead out of the State and they all go through child stealing Canada. The other route is by sea, and Anchorage has a name for a reason.