>> Is it a 13-year-old girl? <<>> Is it a neighbor living in New York City? <<
>> Is it a 13-year-old girl? <<
>> Is it a neighbor living in New York City? <<
IC Free the Slaves presents "Very Young Girls" -- a documentary that reveals this reality.
"Very Young Girls" offers a glimpse into the lives of teenage prostitutes right here in New York City.
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Thursday, April 29th
Textor 102, 7-9 pm
Suggested Donation $3
(All proceeds directly benefit the main branch of Free the Slaves in D.C.)
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The film follows the girls in real time, using intimate interviews with the girls both when they are still working and when in recovery. The film also uses footage shot by pimps themselves that illustrate exactly how it all starts.
The average age of entry into prostitution today in the Untied States is 13 YEARS OLD.
If a woman has been brought from the Ukraine to Manhattan and coerced to have sex for money, the US government provides her services under the 2002 Sex Trafficking legislation. She is a victim.
But if she is an African-American girl brought to Manhattan from the Bronx, she's a criminal and she's going to jail.
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https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20100425184320719