[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 5 (Thursday, January 9, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H112]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   SEX TRAFFICKING AT THE SUPER BOWL

  (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, the United States is gearing up for 
the next Super Bowl. Unfortunately, so are human sex traffickers. Super 
Bowl Sunday is not just the sporting event of the year; it has also 
become America's traveling human trafficking magnet. Exploiters roam 
the streets looking for prey.
  Last year, while the two teams battled it out on the field, a young 
trafficked girl prayed for her life while sold for sex. These are women 
and children who have been taken as sex slaves, becoming sought-after 
entertainment on Super Bowl weekend.
  New Jersey's efforts toward eliminating this dastardly deed are to be 
commended. Hopefully, they are successful in curbing modern-day slavery 
at the Super Bowl. But this crime ought not to be, not at a major 
sporting event, not in our neighborhood.
  That is why Carolyn Maloney and I have introduced H.R. 3530, the 
Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, which will go after the 
traffickers and the consumers of this slavery. We need to protect 
victims and prosecute the slave trafficking deviants.
  And that's just the way it is.

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