The Legality of Paid "Escort Services"

There is an Online Petition to outlaw the use of escorts transporting minors to residential treatment centers!

Many know this is common in the Troubled Teen Industry, there have been testimonies of kids being taken by escort services hired by their parents to legally kidnap them to an prison-like facility. These kidnapping services are for-profit (sometimes they're from the facility the child is being taken to) and are NOT police officers. They are really huge thugs that will beat up or restrain the child in his/her bedroom in the middle of the night. According to survivors, this was often the most traumatic experience they've had. And the worst thing about these is that it's ALL LEGAL in the United States.

These escorts are NOT legally defined as kidnapping, as the US Kidnapping Statute contains a clause that's frequently overlooked. Stating that a minor has no right go resist such a process as defined by this clause, since children are generally viewed as property of the parents. Meaning the parents have the absolute right to send the kid off as they wish across states and even to foreign countries and get through airport security.

Therefore the only protection children have from this is if they are old enough to be legally emancipated in their home state. Unfortunately legal emancipation of a minor if very difficult to achieve.

I've done more research on this topic and no other industrialized nation allows this due to stronger child protection laws which the US lacks. Paid escort firms are unique to the United States. In every other country this type of responsibility is done by the police and any other third parties would be arrested as stated by a Provo Canyon survivor from Canada. ONLY if the parents have real reason to fear for their child's lives (ex. suicide, self abuse, violence towards household). Only after they find that the child is in serious trouble, the police transport the child to be hospitalized. In fact, that's the way it should be. We just need to get rid of that exception in the kidnapping statute.