Ginger Belcher Case Study

Ginger Belcher is a sixteen year old Caucasian female. Ginger’s mother has a history of promiscuity, substance abuse, violent outburst, child abuse and depression. Ginger’s mother makes her living as a prostitute. Throughout Ginger’s childhood her mother has insisted her children refer to her by name as it makes her sound younger. Ginger’s mother became pregnant with Ginger at sixteen years of age, there were no reported complications during the pregnancy. Ginger has five younger siblings, she shares a father with one of her siblings. Her father’s name is Kenneth Cordell. Kenneth Cordell was an Army private, his whereabouts are unknown. The other four siblings have separate fathers. Throughout ginger’s childhood her family has moved around
Las Vegas, Nevada is a major destination for domestic trafficked children in the United States Outreach workers in one organization identified over 400 prostituted children on the streets of Las Vegas in May 2007 alone. http://www.northeastern.edu. (2007). According to the Department of Justice, forty percent of all human trafficking cases opened for investigation between January 2008 and June 2010 were for the sexual trafficking of a child. Victims on average are between the ages of 12 and 14, although some can be as young as nine, as estimated by ECPAT USA (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes), an anti-trafficking organization. ThinkProgress. (2015, August 23). Ginger refused and was horrified when Alex began to consider and even support the idea. A few weeks later Ginger fell ill, leaving Alex to work alone. Over the next couple weeks Ginger says that Alex began working later and Ginger learned that she had taken Lydia’s advice and started prostituting. Ginger noticed their relationship rapidly deteriorating, stating that she felt Alex slipping away and began desperately trying to cling to Alex. One night when Alex came home late Ginger learned that she had been raped and robbed. They had a fight and Alex agreed to stop prostituting and take a break from stripping for a while. Things were going better for a few weeks until Ginger woke one day around noon to discover that Alex was gone and went to search for her. As she searched for her she realized that Alex had gone back to prostitution and that she had to get out of Vegas with or without