Unfortunately, the world does worse than that, a yacht crew engineer friend of mine, just came back from Phuket, Thailand, and girls and boys, as young as 8 or 9, have their PARENTS living on the street pimping their own children for money.
The society and culture of the USA, and the world, has continued to slide downward into an abyss, that it may not recover from.
Well, your heart sounds like it was in the right place, TAB.
Its tough....