Katariina
Rosenblatt shared her personal experience of human trafficking in her book “Stolen:
The True Story of a Sex Trafficking Survivor”. Sex trafficking is listed in a
hot news topic due to the increasing rate in society (Katherinescottjones. com, 2015). The problem of
human trafficking is not new but it is advancing in many countries. According
to an estimate, annually about 300,000 American Children are being lured in the
sex trade (Katherinescottjones. com, 2015).
In
the business age of children is neglected as some children are as young as
eight years only. According to records, 90% of the victims are never rescued.
Katariina Rosenblatt is one of the survivors who successfully escaped from
trafficking. In this book, she shared all the harrowing experience that the
reader of the book quickly understands and imagine the frightening side of such
terrible things (Givingcompass. org, 2019
The book is worthy to read so one can
understand the pain that could be faced by any child undergoing through such
terrible and bitter experience of their life. beyond the fact of terrible
happening to the kidnapped children, there is a hope for the victims of sex
trafficking. The book enlightens reality and it is more than a warning. In a
real sense, the book is a celebration for the survival that can inspire
readers.
Characters
of genders in Stolen: The True Story of a Sex Trafficking Survivor
The
author of the book has shared her personal experience of human trafficking, she
was first recruited while staying at a hotel in Miami Beach with her family. At
that time, she was wandering for love and eventually fell into the hands of a
young woman. In the cover of her friendship, she slowly trained her as child
prostitution. After that, in many years, she was trapped in the cycle of dangerous
and false friendship, drugs, threats and violence (Katherinescottjones. com, 2015).
The
word “stolen” in the title of her book demonstrates her stolen innocence and
identity that she lost in herself. The author mentioned in an interview that
American Society is largely experiencing scourge of stolen innocence. The
remarkable aspect of the book is to keep the children aware of their values,
predators, and how God rescues someone from a dangerous lifestyle.
Understanding the book and the truth narrated by the author enables the reader
to empower the deepest and darkest points of their lives (Sun-sentinel. com, 2014).
The
book shows the trend of society and how the people moving around you are
involved in this world. The tendency of our trust in good deeds in lower and
sometimes trusting others in all ways could lead to a dangerous stage. Society
requires strong law enforcement. The teachers, parents, counselors, and
ministers should consider it as a crime and should be aware of such people to
reduce crime from society (Katherinescottjones. com, 2015).
In
the book, she mentioned about the people involved in sex trafficking. She was
first abused by her dad and then her mother took her along with her siblings to
a trafficking ring that was searching to sell American children. She was first
targeted by a young girl known as Mary while she was playing in the pool area (Shreveporttimes. com, 2017). The girl was also under
the influence of threats by the traffickers who were running ring from their
hotel. After that, she was trafficked by the father of a middle school friend
at Gingerbread house in prevention luncheon. She was rescued by a nonprofit
child advocacy center (Givingcompass. org, 2019).
The
center advocates children on annual luncheon and invites motivational speakers
to increase awareness about child abuse in the Shreveport community. Before
that Luncheon was never featured as a survivor of human trafficking and
facilitator to save the children from being trafficked. The people involved in
the society are the poise faces of society that can never be imagined as it
before (Givingcompass. org, 2019).
The trafficking of children and women for
sexual exploitation is of different types. One of the most known types of women
trafficking is through transnational shadow market in which sex traffickers use
recruiting method for controlling women by using false documentation. They use
legal documents and tourist visas to enter the trafficked women in the
destination countries. By using false documents, she becomes more vulnerable as
she comes illegally (Katherinescottjones. com, 2015).
Commonly
the society is represented by some representative groups and such groups are
surrounded by individuals those who seek to find identification (Shreveporttimes. com, 2017). Society interplay
an important role for the individuals and the groups of individuals who often
reject members by claiming their identity. Society is supposed to aspect all
the control for the process of identification, fraud in a relationship, and
power for validation of dependent and independent identity (Katherinescottjones. com, 2015).
Theme
of book of Stolen, The True Story of a Sex Trafficking Survivor
The
book connects the real story with the role of society. throughout the book, the
author mentioned that Jesus saved her that shows her dignity and respect for
her god. Human trafficking is known as a global term that encompasses all sort
of trafficking such as forced to prostitution, labor trafficking, and sex
trafficking. The worst thing is child trafficking for sex purposes. Exploiting
labor in the workplace is also another sort of sex trafficking. Unlike to
different children, those who were sold by their own parents, homegrown
trafficking is increasing annually (Shreveporttimes. com, 2017).
Children
are exploited by young girls and traffickers. Rosenblatt was targeted by the
girl and the young girl under the influence of traffickers took her hand for
friendship. She was addressed by her pimp to do so. Pimps are the members of
society who work to arrange the sexual encounter between the clients and
victims. There is a number of ways to deal with the victims such as through
threats, forces, time of manipulation, trickery violence (Katherinescottjones. com, 2015).
Figure
1: Book cover of “Stolen: The True Story of a Sex Trafficking Survivor”
In
her story, another old man had a major role that convinced her friends. The
process was involving gifts, compliments, and bonding between the victims and
trafficking persons. Trafficking is a bad crime, but it is becoming more
higher. The price of girls and children involved in the process are changing. Initially,
traffickers kidnapped her, and she called her mother from a payphone and her mother
succeed in rescuing her and then at the age of teen she was again targeted by
the traffickers (Givingcompass. org, 2019).
Traffickers
recruit children from their social media accounts, therefore, school students
should be educated properly about human trafficking and sex trafficking. She
was targeted at the apartment complex, as mentioned in her book, and the people
involved in the crime were her school friends and she was sold to a man who had
AIDS (Shreveporttimes. com, 2017).
She
mentioned that she was connected with individuals through the justice system
and they connected to use the resources for her recovery. The steps she took
for recovery are listed below,
After escaping and rescuing herself from sex
trafficking, she went through years of therapy.
She developed strong connections with the people
connected with the justice system.
Rosenblatt went on to earn a bachelor’s degree of
management and her law degree from the St. Thomas University in Florida.
Published the book “Stolen: The True Story of a
Sex Trafficking Survivor” about the journey.
Gender in society of Stolen, The True
Story of a Sex Trafficking Survivor
Despite
the increase in knowledge of human beings in the society, human trafficking is
increasing due to interpersonal power dynamic developed between the victims and
the traffickers. The critical consideration is the power of perception of the
victims and how they take it for the rest of their life's. The targeted
services are required to be considered for prevention, aftercare services, and
intervention. The book explores victims of human trafficking at international
levels such as children and women (Givingcompass. org, 2019).
The
social power of traffickers influences different entrapment factors and the
controlling characteristics are required to be considered in the process of
exploitation. The findings of the book reveal shared characteristics and
entrapment factors between the traffickers and victims. The findings also
suggest that more investigation is required to control by specific kind of
powers (Katherinescottjones. com, 2015).
By
taking into account the roles of all the characters in the book, it can be
concluded that males are more involved in child trafficking as well as sex trafficking.
The author of the book suggested the need for anti-trafficking professionals (Shreveporttimes. com, 2017). The professional
can cognizant victims through perceiving the position provided by the social
service providers, law enforcement agencies, and the other active sources.
The important concept to reduce the crime is
through increasing knowledge of students at elementary levels so in their real
life they keep themselves away from sex trafficking. The teachers and parents
can train students to be a good and useful part of society (Shreveporttimes. com, 2017; Sun-sentinel. com, 2014).
Conclusion on Stolen, The True Story of
a Sex Trafficking Survivor
In the present
work, the book is analyzed to identify the highlighted community of our society
involved in sex trafficking. The analysis demonstrates that in sex trafficking
more than 90% of workers are male members of our society. The special training
class is required to be introduced in society to reduce the issues.
References
of Stolen The True Story of a Sex Trafficking Survivor
Givingcompass. org. (2019, 01 16). How One Giving
Circle Became A Voice For Human Trafficking Victims. Retrieved from
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https://givingcompass.org/gender-and-giving/how-one-giving-circle-became-a-voice-for-human-trafficking-victims/
Katherinescottjones. com. (2015, 01 13). Q&A
WITH KATARIINA ROSENBLATT, SEX TRAFFICKING SURVIVOR & AUTHOR OF STOLEN.
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http://katherinescottjones.com/qa-katariina-rosenblatt-author-stolen/
Shreveporttimes. com. (2017, 10 12). Stolen: The
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