[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 113 (Thursday, August 1, 2013)]
[House]
[Pages H5274-H5275]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             END SEX TRAFFICKING ACT--PROSECUTE THE DEMAND

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, for some of us, growing up was the 
best of times; simple times; safe times. But life isn't that way 
anymore for some kids.
  Today, young girls, the average age between 12 and 14, are lured into 
a crooked, despicable business. It's sex trafficking--modern day 
slavery. Girls have been threatened, raped, forced into selling their 
bodies on the streets by the worst deviants in our society. Some of 
these girls are smuggled into the United States by slave traffickers 
from other countries, and some are from our own neighborhoods.
  Sex traffickers should be put into the jailhouse forever. But society 
must get to the root of the problem: the demand. That's why I have 
introduced the End

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Sex Trafficking Act, along with Representatives Maloney, Granger, and 
Nolan. Our bill targets the interstate criminals who purchase sexual 
acts from child victims and ensures that they, too, are prosecuted as 
human traffickers. No longer can these deviants hide. Let the long arm 
of the law punish the child-molesting pedophiles who steal the 
innocence of children.
  And that's just the way it is.

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