[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12851]
[From the U.S. 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 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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