Meeting with Aravella Simotas 4th Fieldwork

For our 4th field work my group met with Aravella Simotas. Simotas is an assemblywoman for the district of Astoria. She passed a bill that made sex trafficking posters strongly recommended at gas stations and bus stops. She said she wants them there because we’re traffickers are transporting girls they stop and let the girl get out she if one them sees a sign they can save themselves. She told us that she has only meet with a few victims because some they helped her a lot with the bill. Something that surprised me was that she didn’t make the posters a requirement at the bus stops and gas stations. Simotas explained that it would be to hard to make it a requirement. We explained to her how we thought it would be a really good idea if girls were taught about this problem in schools because they would no not to get involved. I was very surprised when Simotas then said that she wanted to fund s new bill were it is a requirement to teach about it in school. Something that we are going to add in our tech-in from Simotas is we are going to give kids posters to hang up around their neighborhoods.

Acadia

Hi, my name is Acadia and i'm in the sexual trafficking group. I chose this group because this affects all of the young girls in the world no matter where they are from. We all need to work together to fight this problem of physical and mental abuse. 

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