Matteo (Dark Erotic Mob Romance) (Rossi Family Book 1) (17 page)

Domestic violence is a learned behavior and a choice, be it conscious or subconscious. It's cyclical, a pattern that can begin slowly with words and spin quickly into more dangerous actions. There are ways to escape. There are also ways for an abuser to get help to end his or her behavior. 

Please contact your local domestic violence resource center or the national hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) for help! You don't have to be alone. Professional help is there to help you escape or learn to end the violence. The best way to move forward is to do it with the assistance of someone to support you through every step of the way.

Here are some disturbing statistics regarding domestic violence. Within the next sixty seconds, twenty people will be physically abused by an intimate partner. One in 5 women and 1 in 7 men have been victims of severe physical violence by an intimate partner in their lifetime.One in 5 women and 1 in 7 men have been raped in their lifetime. Intimate partner crime accounts for 15% of 
all
violent crime. Almost half of female (46.7%) and male (44.9%) victims of rape in the United States were raped by an acquaintance. Of these, 45.4% of female rape victims and 29% of male rape victims were raped by an intimate partner. 

(Domestic violence statistics found on 
www.ncadv.org
, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.)

Human trafficking is a worldwide horror. There are more slaves in the world today than ever before. They are found on every continent, and in nearly every nation, including countries as small as Iceland. More than 75% of human trafficking is for sex slavery. Those individuals, including infants and children, are "conditioned" using various methods (almost all mentioned in this book): starvation, rape, gang rape, physical abuse, beating, confinement, threats of violence toward the victim and victim's family, forced drug use, and shame.
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In a matter of a few years, human trafficking will overtake the drug trade as the most profitable in the world. New York, California and Florida are the states where most human trafficking occurs within the United States, and those individuals are used mostly for the sex industry, though some are used in "sweatshops", domestic servitude, and farm work.

These individuals are not forgotten. More needs to be done to end this plague on humanity. Please be aware of your surroundings, because in nearly half of all cases, the victim knows their "recruiter"/abductor. 
See 
www.facts.randomhistory.com/human-trafficking-facts.html
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Malarek, Victor. 2003. 
The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade.
 New York, NY: Arcadia Publishers.

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