Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them

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Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them Pub. Date: 1/1/2011 Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated

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They are America’s forgotten children, the hundreds of thousands of child prostitutes who walk the Las Vegas Strip, the casinos of Atlantic City, the truck stops on interstates, and the street corners of our cities. Many people wrongly believe sex trafficking involves young women from foreign lands. In reality, the majority of teens caught in the sex trade are American girls—runaways and throwaways who become victims of ruthless pimps.

In Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them, meet the girls who are fighting for their dignity, the cops who are trying to rescue them, and the community activists battling to protect the nation's most forsaken children. Author Julian Sher takes you behind the scenes to expose one of America’s most underreported crimes: A girl from New Jersey gets arrested in Las Vegas and, at great risk to her own life, helps the FBI take down a million-dollar pimping empire. An abused teenager in Texas has the courage to take the stand in a grueling trial that sends her pimp away for 75 years. Survivors of the sex trade in New York, Phoenix, and Minneapolis set up shelters and rescue centers that offer young girls a chance to break free from the streets. "The sex trade is the new drug trade,” says one FBI special agent, and Somebody's Daughter is a call to action, shining a light on America’s dirty little secret.

What People Are Saying

Ellen Hopkins

Unsettling, uncomfortable, unforgettable. Every parent should read Somebody's Daughter , and then share this book with their teen. Knowledge is power. (Ellen Hopkins, author, Tricks and Fallout)

Ernie Allen

[A] powerful and compelling book ... as riveting and disturbing as this book is, it is also uplifting and hopeful ... [Sher] showcases some modern-day heroes whose courageous efforts are rescuing kids and bringing those who prey upon them to justice. It is inspiring. We need more such heroes. (Ernie Allen, president & CEO, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children)

Laura J. Lederer

If you ever watched Pretty Woman and wondered how Julia Roberts got out on the street in the first place—read this book. Somebody's Daughter exposes the grit behind the glamour, the exploitation behind the elegance, and the violence and abuse that are the true story of the women and children hurt on our own streets, in our own cities in America. (Laura J. Lederer, president, Global Centurion, and former senior advisor on trafficking, U.S. Department of State)

Lois Lee

Describes America's failure to address the needs of American children forced to prostitute right here in the United States. (Dr. Lois Lee, founder & president, Children of the Night)

Norma Ramos

To date the most definitive account of sex trafficking of children in the United States and the culture that supports it. (Norma Ramos, executive director, Coalition against Trafficking of Women)

Rachel Durchslag

A brutally honest look into the hidden world of prostituted children in the United States. A compelling book that will touch hearts and minds and inspire people to take action. (Rachel Durchslag, executive director, Chicago Alliance against Sexual Exploitation)

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Publishers Weekly

"The sex trade is the new drug trade," writes Sher (Caught in the Web), who draws attention to the 300,000 American minors trafficked and prostituted each year in his thorough, deeply affecting study. Scaffolding his arguments on the narratives of two such children--Maria, a former prostitute "turned out" at the age of 13, and Felicia, who became involved with her pimp at 14--Sher follows how young people, frequently runaways, find themselves in the clutches of predatory adults. He introduces the reader to the networks of rescue organizations that offer succor and the law enforcement agencies that too frequently victimize the children further, prosecuting prostitutes rather than their pimps or johns. He also studies how representations of pimping in pop culture (from Grand Theft Auto IV to rapper Ice-T's film Pimpin') normalize--even glamorize--exploitation. While the horror stories of the young girls "in the life" are vividly recounted, the author depicts them with sensitivity and respect; and his book strikes a rare balance between revealing trauma and hope, and between the stories of abused children and their advocates. (Jan.)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781569765654
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/1/2011
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 235,708
Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Julian Sher is an award-winning investigative journalist, TV writer and director, and the author of six books. The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, and the BBC have featured his reporting on child abuse.

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