HAWAII'S SILENT SCREAMS: Shocking report reveals horrific truth behind missing and murdered native women

HAWAII'S SILENT SCREAMS: Shocking report reveals horrific truth behind missing and murdered native women
Mary Johnson, an Indigenous woman, went missing in 2020 and is yet to be found (FBI)

HAWAII, US: The ‘Missing and Murdered Native Hawaiian Women and Girls’ (MMNHWG) report, published on December 14, provides new insight into a growing problem in the islands. The average profile of a missing child from the island of Oahu and Native Hawaiian is "15-year-old, female,” according to the report. The report also reveals "indigenous women and girls, including Native Hawaiians, experience violence at much higher rates than other populations in the United States." They are 10 times more likely to be murdered than women from other ethnic groups.

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According to the shocking report, 43% of sex trafficking victims are Kānaka Maoli girls, who are trafficked in Waikīkī, O‘ahu. The report also contains worrying statistics from law enforcement operations. For example, it states 38 percent of those arrested for “soliciting sex from a thirteen-year-old online through Operation Keiki Shield are active-duty military personnel.” Besides, "25 percent of the offenders arrested in March 2019 operation, which was not a 'military op' and which was the only documented non-military Operation Keiki Shield operation on O‘ahu since 2019, were military men," the report adds.