song 092 : Children of the Night (Nonpoetic Rain: Live on KXLU)
An estimated 200,000 to 300,000 underage girls have been forced into prostitution in the United States, and that’s only counting the girls. Prostitution claims 90% of runaways, or throwaways as I call kids like myself who don’t run away, they get thrown out.
A sophisticated set up snares them. Pimps use attractive fellow minors as lures and managers (they only get juvi time). Drugs, beatings, gang rape, then tenderness and more drugs are the common formula whether you are in Atlanta or Istanbul. The number of girls suffering this fate worldwide has to be counted in the millions. And to think most people consider their nations civilized!
I was thinking about the runaways and the throwaways as we drove to this gig through the coldest, darkest, wettest storm Los Angeles had seen in decades. We were about to play a benefit for Children of the Night, once of the few organizations in the United States doing anything to help these kids.
Listen to the song: Click Here
A sophisticated set up snares them. Pimps use attractive fellow minors as lures and managers (they only get juvi time). Drugs, beatings, gang rape, then tenderness and more drugs are the common formula whether you are in Atlanta or Istanbul. The number of girls suffering this fate worldwide has to be counted in the millions. And to think most people consider their nations civilized!
I was thinking about the runaways and the throwaways as we drove to this gig through the coldest, darkest, wettest storm Los Angeles had seen in decades. We were about to play a benefit for Children of the Night, once of the few organizations in the United States doing anything to help these kids.
Listen to the song: Click Here
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