Questions/Answers

Billie

Q: What are the benefits of registering a sex trafficker as a sex offender?
A: Sex offenders are constantly monitored and are restricted to certain living and work areas. By registering as a sex offender, the traffickers are brought out into the open and into the public eye. Once registered as a sex offender, it's virtually impossible to get de-registered. 

Q: How do people even get involved in sex trafficking?
A: Usually, children are sold into the business by a family member or are approached by traffickers on the street. Many traffickers tend to be more disturbed people that find trafficking to be a good way of making money--seeing as children can be sold for $3000-5000 or more.

Miriam

Q: What is the opposing side of Prop 35 state? 
A: The opposing side states that the current pentalies for human traffickers would remain the same, which is a sentence of 5-8 years in prison. With prop 35 passing this will change to a minimum of 12 years for labor trafficking and 20 years for sex trafficking.

Q. What are the statistics for Prop 35 (for/against)?

A.  81% of voters are for harsher punishments for those involved with trafficking. 9,201,747 voters voted for prop 35 and 2,114,434 were against it. A portion of the opposing 19% voters have said to vote against because the prop would cause millions of dollars and human trafficking still would not stop.

Josh

Q: Would Prop 35 criminalize consensual behavior?
A: Absolutely not. Human trafficking entails profiting from the sexual exploitation of a child (who cannot legally consent to sexual conduct) or the use of force, fraud and coercion to compel an adult into forced labor or commercial sex acts against his/her will. Prop 35 is narrowly tailored and specifically states that there must be criminal intent to violate the law. Prop 35 not only requires the showing that the trafficker causes a child “to engage in a commercial sex act” but also “with the intent to effect or maintain a violation of Section,” and it lists 12 different existing criminal sections in our state law.

Human trafficking is a brutal and clearly delineated crime that involves and requires proof of the criminal intent to exploit another human being for profit. Prop 35 is not something that could ever be triggered by mistake.

Q: Isn’t human trafficking just an international issue?                                                                                       A: Many think that human trafficking is a third world problem. But from my vantage point in the trenches, I can tell you that it’s a universal crisis occurring in our own backyard. Domestic trafficking is no less serious when international borders are not crossed. The risk and harm to a child is the same whether she is trafficked from China or within California, where the FBI has identified San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego as high intensity child sex trafficking areas. Prop 35 allows us to protect all children here in California.

Vote Yes on Prop 35

 Andro

Q: how is human trafficking affecting the other through social networking?

A: well the simplest thing that human traffickers chat with the buyers through the social networking. The other point; that we don't need the increase of human trafficking. As a result, having sex traffickers to close their accounts; and that will have an impact on the increase of human trafficking. In fact it will decrease the number of sex traffickers since it will not influence other to become sex traffickers.

Q: Is taking away the social networking website of a human trafficker is same as taking away his/her rights?

A: in some cases the government has to take away something in order for it to not make are country a disaster. For an example the case plessy Vs. ferguson the court case was established since the train wouldn't allow black citizens to ride the train. But this case established separate but equal. In which both sides could sit on the train but they will be separated. And that's what should happen with human trafficking Separate but Equal.