Introduction
The Civil War and passage of constitutional amendments has not been enough to erase slavery from the American culture. According to academic, governmental, and Independent Sector studies, as many as one million persons are held in slavery and involuntary servitude in America today. These persons serve in slave-like conditions as factory and agricultural workers, as domestic servants, and as involuntary participants in the sex industry.
Modern American slavery is part of a world-wide slavery problem in which, according to Scientific American, as many as 27 million persons are being held in slavery. According to the World Labor Organization, at least 8.4 million of those are children. The U. S. Central Intelligence Agency estimates that between 700,000 and two million women and children are trafficked, or moved against their will, each year, with 45,000 to 500,000 of those destined for the U.S. Another study claims that 30 million women were sold worldwide from the 1970s through Spring 1994..
The exact number of persons held in modern slavery, or at least held under the control of another in conditions from which they cannot escape and compelled to provide services they do not voluntarily wish to provide, is unknown but estimates are available through government, academic and independent sector studies. Likewise, the exact percentage of persons held in industrial labor service, argicultural labor service, domestic service, and sexual service, and the number of women and children, and, specifically, the number of minor females, held in slavery is also not known, but, again, estimates for both the international scope of the problem and the scope of the problem within the U.S. are available through these studies.
The U. S. Central Intelligence Agency estimates that at least 15,000 children are imported illegally into the United States each year as involuntary participants in the sex industry. The 15,000 are included in the CIA's estimate of 45,000 to 50,000 total women and children imported each year. The CIA provides no estimate of the cumulative totals of those currently held within the country.
The U. S. Justice Department estimates that approximately 20,000 women and 10,000 children are added annually to the total 300,000 to 600,000 woman and children currently involuntarily exploited in the United States commercial sex industry. They estimate that one third of the total are children, for a total of between 100,000 and 200,000 children serving as involuntary participants in America's sex industry..
Government and academic studies focus on imported slaves but largely ignore the problem of slaves purchased from within the U.S. itself, yet there is ancedotal evidence that such purchase occurs. The studies do confirm that tens of thousands of children--predominately female children are trafficked or transported against their will in conditions of involuntary servitude in the sex industry of America each year.
This paper focuses on a small, but significant, portion of the overall slave issue and of the commercial sex slave industry. This paper focuses on a specific incest/pedophile subculture active in America and on the child sex slave activities of this specific sub-culture.