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4-22-19 Monday
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Sex trafficking is huge.
Average life span once someone is caught up in trafficking? 7 years.
What is grooming?
Grooming is the precursor phase. Sexual grooming, or just “grooming”, is a preparatory process in which a predator gradually gains a person’s trust with the intent to exploit them. The victim is usually a child, teen, or vulnerable adult. The purpose of grooming is to manipulate the person into becoming a co-operating participant in their own abuse or exploitation, which reduces the likelihood of a disclosure and increases the likelihood that the victim will become attached and repeatedly return to the perpetrator.
Can grooming be stopped?
Yes, but it’s easier to catch it before it happens and trust is built with the predator. If you teach your kids ahead of time to watch for this it can save them tremendously.
My parents always told me “don’t ever be alone with a stranger EVER. Not at church, not at someones house, not in another room, not at the mall, not at the park NO WHERE.
And they told me real life stories about kids who were abused to help anchor the point.
6 Stages of Grooming
1. Targeting a victim
Traffickers target victims who have some noticeable vulnerability: emotional neediness, low self-esteem, or economic stress.
Social media and apps with private messaging features make it easier and faster for traffickers to identify their victims.
Emotional neediness: They failed a major test, their boyfriend broke up with them, they are bullied by others, They got cut from the team…
Why are teens targeted?
Grooming tactics work most successfully when the victim is between the ages of 11 and 16, when a normal human brain is still developing. According the the National Institutes of Health, a teen’s brain is highly sensitive to pleasure and reward as the nucleus accumbens is nearly fully developed. But, the prefrontal cortex – the part of the brain that helps us make major decisions and foresee consequences – is not fully developed in most humans until their mid-twenties.
All of this means that teens are more vulnerable to flattery, attention, affection, and gifts as means of coercion, especially if there is not a strong safe attachment at home. All human trafficking involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion.
Luke 17:2 It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.
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