[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12022]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                                 SHAME

  (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, too often victims of human sex 
trafficking are ashamed. But, Mr. Speaker, the traffickers and the 
buyers are the ones who should be ashamed and shamed.
  Buyers and sellers want to remain anonymous, but those days are over. 
It is time to use public punishment for their dastardly deeds. As a 
judge in Texas, I successfully used public punishment.
  The SHAME Act will give Federal judges the discretion to publish the 
names and photographs of convicted human sex traffickers and buyers as 
well as sending them off to prison. Buyers and sellers who force 
victims to repeatedly sell their bodies should be publicly shamed for 
all of us to see.
  Photos of slave traders and buyers that appear on billboards will 
also deter other would-be criminals. Such photographs should appear 
before large conventions or sporting events--events where trafficking, 
unfortunately, increases. Let the public see the faces of slave traders 
and buyers of children--children that are sold on the marketplace of 
sex trafficking.
  Shame traffickers, and shame on them.
  And that is just the way it is.

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