tst123@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoTIL that Mississippi did not make child-selling illegal until 2009, after a woman tried to sell her granddaughter for $2,000 and a car and it was discovered that there was no law to punish her under.message-squaremessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1message-squareTIL that Mississippi did not make child-selling illegal until 2009, after a woman tried to sell her granddaughter for $2,000 and a car and it was discovered that there was no law to punish her under.tst123@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squareDarukhnarn@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoWhy isn’t something like this covered under human trafficking?
minus-squareneptune@dmv.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoThe free market has to be free /s
minus-squaresci@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-22 years agofrom what i read in the article comments, the human trafficking law only covers trafficking across state borders
minus-squareMister@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 years agoUS is essentially just a compilation of 50 small countries that joined together to create a large military. Most laws are up to the states to enforce and create. Some states do a better job than others.
Why isn’t something like this covered under human trafficking?
The free market has to be free /s
from what i read in the article comments, the human trafficking law only covers trafficking across state borders
Your country is wild….
US is essentially just a compilation of 50 small countries that joined together to create a large military. Most laws are up to the states to enforce and create. Some states do a better job than others.