• @Snowclone
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    211 hours ago

    They’re just so used to it, statistically just about all the prostitution in the US is minors who are being abused, and sex trafficed. Most come out of the foster system, most children don’t have to worry about aging out of family care, and the gov has a lot of really shitty little loopholes to cut foster kids out of any benifits as quick as they turn 18 if they still qualify for anything. This is a passive system that everyone in power is not willing to discuss or deal with it, police have been fighting legislation that says they can’t just have sex with minors who are being sex trafficed to arrest them for prostitution. And they even fight against legislation that says they can’t have ‘‘consensual’’ sex with people they arrest or are to guard. The news also wields power and they also don’t want to talk about it, or report on it.