Troubled Teens Resources

Some parents might feel that their experience with their troubled teen’s defiance and poor behavior to pale in comparison with some of the horrors that teenage drug abuse can lead to.

One doesn’t expect to be greeted with headlines announcing victims of the children’s sex trade but such is the reality just north of the border in Winnipeg.

“At age 14, Rath Pranteau entered the sex trade through a telephone chat line.

“It started out for money and glamour,” said Pranteau at a recent media event for a new program at Winnipeg’s Ndinawe Youth Resource Centre, which will train former youth sex trade workers to support current ones.

“I was introduced to a different social setting and that’s where I got experience with alcohol and met other users.”
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“It was an isolation from reality. What kept me going was the substance abuse. I would go on binges that would last days. I did it for the next fix,” said the 21-year-old former sex trade worker. “

Doing it for the next fix has plunged millions of troubled teens, world-wide, into the under-reported horrors of the modern day sex trade.

Advocates say Pranteau’s experience is far from rare.

“It certainly has been bad for a long time… “People need to know it is happening and it is a form of child abuse.”

Runner said hundreds of kids are exploited through the sex trade in Winnipeg alone, with about 80% of the activity hidden indoors.
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Another sad story that serves as stark testimony to the necessity for a parent’s unending vigilance.