The most innocent and precious of Connecticut’s humanity is being threatened — our children.

In Anne Stevenson’s “Connecticut’s Child Trafficking Crisis” (The Blog, April 6, 2017), she wrote that “Connecticut’s State’s Attorney Kevin Kane pointed out, ‘exploited children are a class of victims that the state of Connecticut doesn’t deal with. Whether evidence of child sex trafficking is ever “discovered” is largely a function of whether the state (which in many cases is also the child’s legal guardian) decides to discover it and/or refer the case to law enforcement.’”

This conflict of interest creates ideal opportunities for the predators, while helpless children have no defense and no one searching for them!

Stevenson reports that, “The Connecticut Department of Children and Families reported that .....of 432 child victims of human trafficking in Connecticut since 2006........only 28 cases were prosecuted. All 28 were prosecuted federally, but none were by the state!”

So, how come, Gov. Malloy? Now those 404+ leftover associated predators still lurk Connecticut’s streets and malls sizing up our children for their uses!

One hopeful sign is the launching of Veterans For Child Rescue (V4CR.org), a non-profit organization. It is the passion of Craig “Sawman” Sawyer, a decorated Navy Seal Team Six operator. This non-profit’s mission is to assist Law Enforcement and Non-Government Organization’s, helping eliminate Domestic Minor (age) Sex Trafficking.

Their strategy involves educating the public, raising awareness, training law enforcement and empowering our children. The organization also invites sympathetic citizens to form local Fund Raising Area Support Teams.

Mr. Sawyer notes that, “Human sex trafficking is the fastest growing commodity criminal enterprise on planet earth today and has recently surpassed illicit drugs in monetary profitability.”

Are our children safe? I don’t think so. Do you?

Please become part of the solution as I am trying to do.

Margaret Borland

Bethel