[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6612]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             TWELVE DOLLARS

  (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, $12. In Nigeria, $12 is the cost of a 
bride slave. Recently, around 200 girls went to school and never came 
home. They were kidnapped and, for $12 apiece, sold to the Islamic 
militant terrorist group Boko Haram. They were forced into marriage and 
raped--modern sex slavery.
  This inhuman human trafficking crime is a world problem that needs 
action. Today, the United States took a huge step forward in the battle 
against this scourge. The Judiciary Committee passed three bills 
fighting this growing problem here in America.
  The Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act that I sponsored, along 
with Carolyn Maloney of New York, was passed and supports and protects 
victims of this horrible crime. It punishes the sex trafficker and now 
punishes the buyer, the child rapist. It helps rescue child victims and 
treats them as victims, rather than child prostitutes.
  No life deserves to be stolen and sold for $12. Children should not 
be for sale anywhere, at any time, for any reason.
  And that's just the way it is.

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