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She apparently received $10K from a man in England, as per her daughter. We don't know what for as this point, but LE may already know. I almost wonder if it were for 'photos'? That sickens me again, but if that is the case, LE should be able to find them.
Was Zahra a victim of Human Trafficking
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She apparently received $10K from a man in England, as per her daughter. We don't know what for as this point, but LE may already know. I almost wonder if it were for 'photos'? That sickens me again, but if that is the case, LE should be able to find them.
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Here is an example of "pimping" a kid out for money....
http://wsbradio.com/localnews/2010/03/parents-prostitute-child-for-c.html
The couple bought a minivan from a used car dealership in Eastman, about 140 miles southeast of Atlanta, in March 2008 but has not made a single payment on it, Winborn said. They made their daughter perform sex acts on the dealership's manager in lieu of making the $281 monthly payments on their minivan, he said.
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Here is some info from an ABC story...
http://a.abcnews.com/US/Story?id=3691604&page=3
Statistics Hard to Come By
Exact numbers of actual parents prostituting their children both in the real and virtual worlds are difficult to come by, academics and law enforcement authorities told ABC NEWS.
But in the FBI's fiscal year that ended in August, the government opened a total of 2,443 new investigations into child sex crimes on the Internet and achieved 1,015 convictions. In 2006, the FBI opened a total of 2,135 new investigations and won 1,013 convictions.
The bureau said it doesn't keep statistics of how many of those cases involved parents.
Children are more likely to end up as prostitutes in the real world than the virtual world, experts said. The Department of Health and Human Services puts the number of children at risk for sexual exploitation in the United States at around 400,000.
But according to Janice Wolak, a professor at the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, it's difficult to know how accurate that number is.
"It's really hard to get a solid number. We've tried to survey national law enforcement departments, but the number of arrests doesn't reflect the real number of kids prostituting. It is an incredibly elusive population."
Wolak estimated that a small population, less than 10 percent of all children working the streets as prostitutes, were being pimped out by their parents.
"In a typical scenario, a parent is already involved in drugs or prostitution in one way or another. Parents prostitute their kids for drugs or money," she said.
http://wsbradio.com/localnews/2010/03/parents-prostitute-child-for-c.html
The couple bought a minivan from a used car dealership in Eastman, about 140 miles southeast of Atlanta, in March 2008 but has not made a single payment on it, Winborn said. They made their daughter perform sex acts on the dealership's manager in lieu of making the $281 monthly payments on their minivan, he said.
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Here is some info from an ABC story...
http://a.abcnews.com/US/Story?id=3691604&page=3
Statistics Hard to Come By
Exact numbers of actual parents prostituting their children both in the real and virtual worlds are difficult to come by, academics and law enforcement authorities told ABC NEWS.
But in the FBI's fiscal year that ended in August, the government opened a total of 2,443 new investigations into child sex crimes on the Internet and achieved 1,015 convictions. In 2006, the FBI opened a total of 2,135 new investigations and won 1,013 convictions.
The bureau said it doesn't keep statistics of how many of those cases involved parents.
Children are more likely to end up as prostitutes in the real world than the virtual world, experts said. The Department of Health and Human Services puts the number of children at risk for sexual exploitation in the United States at around 400,000.
But according to Janice Wolak, a professor at the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, it's difficult to know how accurate that number is.
"It's really hard to get a solid number. We've tried to survey national law enforcement departments, but the number of arrests doesn't reflect the real number of kids prostituting. It is an incredibly elusive population."
Wolak estimated that a small population, less than 10 percent of all children working the streets as prostitutes, were being pimped out by their parents.
"In a typical scenario, a parent is already involved in drugs or prostitution in one way or another. Parents prostitute their kids for drugs or money," she said.
Kimberley, or anyone who feels like - feel free to start a child trafficking thread in the JR for general discussion of the issue, if there isn't one already. If I find one already in existence, will bump it so you can see it and copy useful info there, as well.
ETA: There's a sticky thread for it in the Crimes in the News, it seems:
[ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=91597"]Human Trafficking Awareness Thread - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community[/ame]
ETA: There's a sticky thread for it in the Crimes in the News, it seems:
[ame="http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=91597"]Human Trafficking Awareness Thread - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community[/ame]
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So we can't discuss this here if we think it's possible it happened to Zahra?
ETA: The reason I ask this is Human Trafficking has been discussed in detail on several threads for specific cases such as Zahra's.
ETA: The reason I ask this is Human Trafficking has been discussed in detail on several threads for specific cases such as Zahra's.
You can talk about it, certainly, but I feel a general discussion of trafficking is more useful in threads designed for that discussion, rather than having it spread over several cases.
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I don't know if i'm allowed to refer to another site here about this issue, and if not mods can delete my post. I read over on HM, that, and this is probably a reliable scource from what i read, that the $10,000 was from that person in the UK, because EB got onto him about Zahra's cancer and her other problems healthwise. So i guess she was preying on this man's sympathy to extract money from him, and he did know of Zahra through someone else in the military, and i think that person was involved in "Camp Quality", that does wonderful things for kids with cancer.
I would hope this is the case as oppposed to more sinister speculations about the money EB supposedly got from him.
Hinky Meter is fine, AFAIK. Feel free to post the link if you wish. HTH!
(Though, please no one sleuth the UK guy's identity or personal details - the money story is fine, since it has been in MSM and has a reliable source.)
In the Zahra forum, we can discuss the story about the $10K, because it comes from MSM, but I don't want to see anyone bringing info here about this guy, because he is not a suspect in this case.
Discussing whether or not he gave the $10k in a thread about human trafficking, however, is kind of dicey, because it can come off like there's a connection between the crime and the money, and we don't know that there is. MOO.
Please do not accuse people of things without evidence.
Discussing whether or not he gave the $10k in a thread about human trafficking, however, is kind of dicey, because it can come off like there's a connection between the crime and the money, and we don't know that there is. MOO.
Please do not accuse people of things without evidence.
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From what Ive seen this guy who sent the money is a innocent guy who got duped by EB. Seems he was a guy who had met Zahra at a benifit and then was singled out for one reason or the other. I think he gave the money out of the goodness of his heart to help a little girl with cancer. I for one will not be going into this any farther as I personally believe te guy to be another victim in this tragic story. JMO
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