Get our hands around what the problem is and what we can do about it. The problem generates of course with the trafficker. There are three entities involved in trafficking. The trafficker. I call them the slave master because thats what it is. It is modern day slavery in its worst form especially when it comes to children. Then we have on the other end, the victim. Of course, that is a victim, not a child prostitute and Society Needs to understand and especially Law Enforcement that when they arrest a child for child prostitution, they should not be arrested for child prostitution, they should be taken to a shelter where they are treated as a victim of criminal conduct. Because thats what they are. But we got the real issues to deal with that society has missed is the person in the middle. And that is the demand. There is a demand for trafficking in the United States. The days of boys being boys is going to be over in the United States. They are going to be treated like criminals and b
Because of our location and because of our demographics. We have been working on this issue for a long time, trying to get our hands around what the problem is and what we can do about it. The problem generates of course with the trafficker. There are three entities involved in trafficking. The trafficker. I call them the slave master because thats what it is. It is modern day slavery in its worst form especially when it comes to children. Then we have on the other end, the victim. Of course, that is a victim, not a child prostitute and Society Needs to understand and especially Law Enforcement that when they arrest a child for child prostitution, they should not be arrested for child prostitution, they should be taken to a shelter where they are treated as a victim of criminal conduct. Because thats what they are. But we got the real issues to deal with that society has missed is the person in the middle. And that is the demand. There is a demand for trafficking in the United States.
So the group homes really become targeted very specifically by pimps. They know where the group homes are and they will go and recruit specifically there, and sometimes theyll get other girls to do that. The other place where girls are recruited are in juvenile Detention Centers where girls recruit each other. So given we know all of this information, we absolutely can prevent this from happening. But we do have to fundamentally change parts of the Child Welfare system in order to do it. Congressman reichert, i want to congratulate you on the passage of your legislation preventing the sex trafficking and strengthening families act. You talked about that legislation. I i wonder if there are any other plans in the committee for expanding on the amazing work you were all able to do. Well, ive moved on from the chairmanship of that committee to the tax committee. So, i so what im going to [laughter] ill be the chairman of the revenue subcommittee on ways and means, but charles bustamonte a
So i should actually correct myself. In the reference to child pornography and staca is so similar to the effort you are launching to change the term from child prostitute to a child victim, there is an effort to change the reference to child pornography. Because it is not pornography, it is child sexual abuse content. It is the documentation of violent abuse of a child. So it is very different. And that is why our child sexual abuse Deterrence Program has been under way for three years and our john deterrence is just getting started. Because it is more black and white with child sexual abuse content. And when you are online, you need when you work online you have to indicators, right . You need to know key words or behaviors. And with child sexual abuse content it is very clear. There are certain words that mean certain things and that allows you to target and reach people and intercept them more clearly. When it comes to child trafficking and child victims, it is massed in this perce
Better job in explaining why it is important that nations who would like to be taken seriously in the world require military capabilities to be partners in the larger endeavors that confront us. But lets be clear. Its not clear that in this country there is the kind of support we may need for defense spending at large, and it is definitely clear there is no support or no knowledge for nato. Much of our parliamently our congre congressmen and senators dont know much about nato. Most would be surprised that nato continues not only to run the Afghan Mission but have between a third and a half of the troops there from european countries. So we have done not a particularly good job of explaining the importance of nato to our own security, to our own to what it is that europe and nato contribute to what we do day in and day out. So before we start lecturing our european friends about how important it is that they go out and tell their parliamentarians how central nato is and defense spending