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Ideas: With Prop 35 passing the jail terms will be extended for human traffickers, holding
them accountable for their crimes. Before Prop 35 passed those convicted of
human traffickers would have received 5-8 years in prison. With the proposition
passing, doing the crime just once will get the human trafficker 12 to 20 years
in prison depending on what kind of trafficking. Labor traffickers
will receive 12 years in prison now and sex traffickers would receive a
sentencing of 20 years. Forcing a minor into sex trafficking would result in
the hardest punishment of life in prison. Also because of Prop 35, those
previously convicted traffickers will now have even harsher sentences of an
extra 5 years for every time the crime has been repeated.
Link & Analysis:
Children, mostly females, are recruited usually at
ages ranging from 10-14 years old for sex trafficking. It takes years for these
children to overcome such a scarring time in their lives and even some do not
even recover. While the sex traffickers are producing obscene amounts of money,
their victims are spending eminence amount of money seeking treatment to
help them cope with their unfortunate situation. The damages caused by sex
traffickers most likely take longer than 5-8 years to cope with so punishment for
it should be longer as well.
Significant quote:
The Contra Costa Times states: "The proposition would expand some of the definitions of human trafficking in California laws and would increase the fines and penalties for engaging in such illegal conduct, and it severely increases those penalties for repeat offenders."
Many newspapers like the Contra Costa Times were for Prop 35, for the stronger punishment on traffickers. Most of the articles were written to persuade readers into voting for Prop 35.
"Sex trafficking of minors that involved force or fraud would be punishable by up to a life term in prison."
Just shows how serious sex trafficking is, that the consequence is life in prison is a suitable punishment.
Visual Argument & Analysis
(the image won't upload so I had to link it) http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/kalw/files/styles/card/public/201210/prop%2035.jpg
The image can be interpreted for both the victims of human trafficking and the traffickers themselves. Victims can relate to the image because it shows how they are bound to their jobs and cannot escape. On the other hand the picture also shows that those involved in human trafficking need to be locked up for their terrible actions.
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