Cecil Walker’s Blog

I recently went on a motorcycle ride to benefit brandedPhx and became aware children all across the world, all across the US, right here in the Phoenix metro area are being held captive as sex slaves working the streets. Yes, children. Lured, abducted, trafficked and held captive against their will to be used as property. Sometimes they are physically branded with crude scalding irons and tattoos to identify them as the property of their pimp.Stripped of their childhood and reduced to being a commodity.

According to BrandedPhx, an organization here in the Phoenix area that is dedicated to ending child slavery for sex and prostitution, the FBI estimates that well over 100,000 children and young women are trafficked in America today. They range in age from 9 to 19.

This motorcycle benefit ride was put together to awareness of this problem and raise money to help fight it! If you want to know more about brandedPhx or their partner streetlight (an organization dedicated to the creation of safe transition facilities where children removed from sex for profit can heal and recover) then click on the links I provided in the sentence and get involved! Be sure and check out the Learn More section as well as the Connect and Take Action areas! It’s not only eye opening, it will compel you to do something about it!