{"id":15300,"date":"2012-04-06T19:44:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T02:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15300"},"modified":"2012-04-06T19:44:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T02:44:07","slug":"from-an-article-in-the-new-york-times-on-sex-trafficking-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15300","title":{"rendered":"From an article in the New York Times on sex trafficking in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The whole article is really disturbing, but this in particular made me have to stop reading and take a deep breath. I don&#8217;t want to judge the family without knowing the situation&#8211;who knows whether the traffickers gave them little or no choice, for example&#8211;but that the world is a place where it is possible just to <em>imagine<\/em> treating anyone&#8217;s daughter like this doesn&#8217;t simply turn my stomach. It fills me, as I sit here waiting for my wife to get her new eyeglasses adjusted, with a helpless rage that makes me want to cry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some of the women are sold into the business by their families, Mr. Cort\u00e9s said. The police came across one case in which Colombian traffickers were paying one family $650 a month for their daughter. She managed to escape, he said. But when she contacted her family, they told her to go back or they would send her sister as a replacement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note also where the article mentions a woman whose traffickers tattooed a bar code on her and the amount of money she owed them. Read the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/HmkcGq\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cross-posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardjnewman.com\">It&#8217;s All Connected<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whole article is really disturbing, but this in particular made me have to stop reading and take a deep breath. I don&#8217;t want to judge the family without knowing the situation&#8211;who knows whether the traffickers gave them little or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=15300\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rape-intimate-violence-related-issues","category-sex-work-porn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15301,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15300\/revisions\/15301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}