The following facts come from the Administration for Children and Families of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services:

  • Sex trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery in which a commercial sex act is induced by
    force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act is under the
    age of 18 years.
  • Victims of sex trafficking can be women or men, girls or boys, but the majority are women
    and girls.
  • One lure to secure a victim into sex slavery is being sold by parents
  • One method used by sex-slaveowners to “condition” their victims is forced drug use

According to the United Nations:

  • The most common form of human trafficking is for sexual exploitation
  • 20 percent of all trafficking victims are children

These are facts to bear in mind when reading euphemistic accounts about the white Duke University administrator who “adopted” the little black boy whom he is alleged to have drugged with Benadryl before molesting repeatedly and offering to others for sex. Remember, too, that the boy is one of two children “adopted” by Frank Lombard.

His neighbors should remember those things, rather than kicking reporters out, blocking the street with a Subaru and closing ranks. Was the little five-year-old boy not also their neighbor?

It would be well for the Duke community also to remember those things — it is, after all, presumably the same community that professed outrage over the idea (the infamous hoax) of a poor black woman being gang-raped by rich white boys. But it turns out that community outrage over rape at Duke is provably related to politics.

Nevertheless, these allegations would seem to fit within even Duke leftists’ highly narrow parameters for accepting sexual abuse as morally offensive — but the silence from the campus at large and especially the Gang of 88 is telling, and disturbing all the more so. (Mike Adams tried to help the latter out, but to no avail.) How is this not also “a perfect storm” of race, class, and gender issues? What is the difference?

ETA: Commenter “AgentPierce” gets to the heart of the matter in his post on The News & Observer story linked above:

Unlike in The Lacrosse Hoax ….. it appears that the tragic victim in this case (assumption of innocence noted!) actually IS an African-American …. HOWEVER we are NOT seeing an outpouring of sympathy for the abused child from Durham’s notorious Black activist community. One would think this is EXACTLY when they should be heard ….. their silence is deafening! …. a 5 y/o boy whose only “family” in this world is his presumed persecutor !!

Where is Bill Barber …. where is Victoria Peterson …. where is Jackie Wagstaff …. where is Mayor Bill Bell …. and Lord Love A Duck – Where O’ Where is Malik Zulu Shabazz …. ????

If Crystal Gale & The Embezzler deserved the full throated support of Durham’s Black Community …. why are we not seeing it for a totally innocent 5 Y/O Boy ???