Women continuing to disappear in the Southland.
Los Angeles – Friday, February 29th By: Vincent Wilmot

      The alarming rise in recent disappearances of young woman in the greater Los Angeles area has prompted the LAPD to call in the Special Victims Unit of the FBI to assist in tracking down suspects sought for questioning in these cases.  In the last year alone, over four hundred women have disappeared from the southland, and police are rumored to believe that the women are being used and trafficked within the alarmingly increasing borders of the sex trade industry.  “So far, we do not have any leads as to where most of these women end up, but we believe a majority of them are alive and being exploited in pornographic films, websites, and other items of that nature”, said Special Agent Michael Aaronson of the FBI’s Special Victims Unit.

      “The sexual exploitation of women is a complex issue”, says Dr. Jane Garish of the Los Angeles Woman’s Institute, “It encompasses a wide range of situations and levels of complexity. In cases of trafficking, women can be forced into marriage or varyind degrees of the sex industry. The most common methods by which traffickers recruit women are deception, coercion and abduction. Although many women try to escape from their exploitative situation, many are trapped or ‘caged’ with absolutely no way of escaping their captors”.

      Human Trafficking has been aggressively on the rise in the United States recently, with several rings, and operations being discovered within the past five years in Southern California alone.  New Mexico has reported a twenty-percent increase in trafficking along its Mexico borders, an astounding fifteen percent of that being looked at as sexual in nature.  Unfortunately, the steady increase in discovery truly lends itself to the increase in occurrence, and the disturbing reality that this industry has found a foothold in our country.

      Ending our conversation with Los Angeles Detective John Nersesian he left us these words “We are doing everything we can to find these abducted women, but until we see a Reversal in these events, the best thing they can do, is FIGHT BACK”.