The Child Protection eNewsletter
 An in-depth piece by ABC News concludes that child trafficking is likely to outpace illegal drug trading as profits grow and enforcement is difficult. http://abcnews.go.com The United Nations Children's Fund estimates that about 1 million children enter the sex industry every year. Earlier this summer, the State Department issued its 2005 Trafficking in Persons report http://www.state.gov outlining government efforts to combat child trafficking. The report is available online at http://www.state.gov. Last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agents, working with Chicago area county law-enforcement authorities last week arrested 25 foreign-born, convicted sex offenders who had preyed on children and minors. http://www.worldnetdaily.com The arrests are part of Operation Predator, a nationwide ICE initiative to protect children from sexual predators, including those who travel overseas for sex with minors, Internet child pornographers, criminal alien sex offenders, and child sex traffickers. Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security recently announced that arrests during the first two years of Operation Predator have exceeded 6,000. http://www.americanchronicle.com Last Friday, the Bush Administration announced new efforts to prevent the sexual abuse of foreign exchange students by their U. S. sponsors. http://news.yahoo.com
ABC News reports that psychologists at Vanderbilt and Yale universities have been studying the effect that highly emotional images have on our perception of the world around us, and they've found convincing evidence that the human brain just can't process information that it receives immediately after seeing a violent or erotic scene. http://abcnews.go.com We're talking real short term here, around a fifth to a half a second, but given the speed of today's society, that may be enough to worry about. A fast-moving vehicle, for example, can travel a significant distance in that brief span of time.
 The High School Survey of Student Engagement finds that only 55% of students feel safe in school. http://www.usatoday.com It also reports that students believe their schools care more about athletic achievement than academic excellence. Last week, infamous Jonesboro, AR teenager Mitchell Johnson was released from prison seven years after he and another student opened fire outside a Jonesboro middle school killing four students and a teacher. http://www.cnn.com Johnson, who was tried as a juvenile, left a Tennessee facility on his 21st birthday -- his record wiped clean. According to the Justice Department, a student is 70 times more likely to be murdered away from school than at school. http://www.ncjrs.org
Three Massachusetts residents have been arrested and charged with driving a 13-year-old girl around New England to engage in prostitution. http://cbs4boston.com
CBS’ Early Show decided to investigate whether adults were more likely to help a lost dog than lost child. http://www.cbsnews.com In their experiment, it took the child nearly three times as long to get help as the dog.
The sentencing of the BTK serial killer, Dennis Rader, this week will allow the families of his victims to confront him in court for the first time. http://www.foxnews.com The hearing is expected to be wrenching as investigators disclose explicit details of the sexually motivated crimes and the relatives describe their loss and pain.
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