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The average age of a child prostitute in Phoenix is 13 years old. Every day hundreds of children wake up in an enslaving nightmare. 
And every day they know they will have to complete the most dehumanizing of tasks before they will be allowed to sleep again. Angie* is one of these children.
Angie's livelihood, her trade, her survival, her existence is prostitution. Hers is a life lived in slavery. Angie's shackles are brandings made from crude scalding irons and tattoos that claim her as property of her pimp. Her workload is an 8-12 hour day consisting of one contractual rape after another. She is reduced to a product, forced to offer herself to countless strangers. Angie's masters are the men who coerce and manipulate her into this hell.
UNICEF estimates that a million new minors each year are coerced or forced into sex slavery such as Angie's. Between 100,000 and 300,000 children in America are at risk for sex trafficking each year. As many as 2.8 million children live on the streets, a third of whom are lured into prostitution within 48 hours of leaving home. The FBI estimates that well over 100,000 children and young women are trafficked in America today. They range in age from 9 to 19.
While there are millions of children as Angie victimized every day, let us not forget the one. The one girl deceived, the one woman afflicted with AIDS, the one child needing a rescuer. To succumb to the enormity of the problem is to fail the one.
*Name changed to protect identity
