Some 293,000 young Americans are potential victims of prostitution rings in the United States, Most of them are children fleeing or driven from their homes by parents and living on the street, recognized the website of the Department of
Justice U.S. in a section on child sex trafficking.

In the country that once again attempts to defame Cuba by including it in a State Department report on trafficking in persons, tens of thousands of young people abandoned by their families' resort to prostitution to get money whatthey need to survive or to purchase what they want or need. "

"Other young people are recruited into forced prostitution, kidnapping (sic),pressure from parents or misleading arrangements between parents and traffickers," the authors of the report which cited several studies confirming these assertions.

"Once people are involved in prostitution are forced to travel far from their places of origin and, as a result, are isolated from their friends and families.

Few of them are capable in this position of developing new relationships with others or with adults other than those that abuse them. The lifestyle of these children revolves around violence, forced drug use and constant threats. "

The official text reveals that among children and adolescents living on the street in the United States' involvement in commercial sexual activity is a problem of epidemic proportions. "

"Approximately 55% of street girls engage in formal prostitution" and "of them, 75% work with a pimp" in "escort services and massage, private clubs, major sporting events, conventions and tourist travel.

One fifth of the children are picked up by national crime networks... "They are transported across the United States and some often use false identity to avoid arrest.

The average age of girls in prostitution is 12 to 14 years while the boys are 11 to 13, the report said.

On another page of its website, the Justice Department admits as the Internet has become the preferred vehicle for child pornography whose authors are protected by the maze of the Net.

Many of these young people are influenced by popular culture that often glamorizes the advocacy of prostitution and pimps, surveys show.

The Justice Department website concedes that the resources needed by the girls gathered on the street - such as shelter, medical care, therapies - are not available when they are brought before a court.

Regarding trafficking, the U.S. press has reported several cases of Mexican or Central American women tricked or kidnapped and taken to U.S. territory where they are forced to work in the sex industry.

One case that made headlines was that of a certain Jeff Botts who "trafficked" in January about 1200 women from China, Ukraine, Russia and Japan to the United States.

North American production of "on-line" pornography that floods the world each year reached record levels of income. The latest data available down to about 13.62 billion revenue of the U.S. porn industry.

These U.S. attacks on Cuba with the aim of tarnishing the image of the island,are only the latest in a long series of calumnies, lies and fabrications of Washington's dirty war against the Cuban Revolution.