Part 2: Dottie delves into a real-life grooming situations and the aftermath!
55 THINGS PARENTS & GRANDPARENTS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT HUMAN TRAFFICKING: #6 Part 2
Editor’s Note:
In this week’s issue of the Traffic Report, Dottie takes a deeper dive into point 6 of 55 Things taken from her case files. We also have an exclusive interview with Dottie regard the current Human Trafficking scene.
Best,
Larry
An exclusive interview with Dottie
TR: You have been on the front lines fighting human trafficking for the past 20 years. Could you please give us an update on the state of Human Trafficking?
DL: In 2020 it felt to me that the trafficking had lessened greatly. In 2023, I began to get very busy again, however not as busy as prior to 2020. I thought by now this would be stopped by 2020, however after 20 years I am still needed to help victims and their families.
TR: How has it changed in the last few years?
DL: I see that most are teens and young adults lured by social media. I help so many parents with adult children. The parents call me because they are helpless to save their adult children.
TR: Has the current situation improved or regressed?
DL: I think regressed. I think parents are blind to the dangers awaiting their children online- adult or minor children are VERY lucrative to bad guys.
TR: What do you see in the immediate and long term?
Immediately I want to see parents and society disrupt the blind use of the internet. It is EXTREMELY dangerous. Long term I want to see EVERY child safe online and in their community. We are not there yet, right now there are intense dangers out there and they (families) do not even know what is waiting for them.
#6
Predators may spend days, weeks, months, or years grooming your child without your knowledge.
Parents, you must understand your children minor, or adult are not equipped to come up against the powerful online forces that are targeting them. So, sex predators will use online platforms to target your kids and they will put in the time, and they will put in the effort. In this case he communicated with her for eighteen months before he picked her up. You must be on top of it. When the signs and symptoms are showing they have already been there quite a while longer than you knew. Stay on top of it! If your kids are online be there with them. I give you permission to spy on your young children, and your adult children. Hopefully, you already have a mechanism in place for watching them! Unfortunately, they are simply not equipped to deal with this world! Please watch over them.