The Facts
Owning sex slaves is very lucrative, and slaveholders are seldom prosecuted.
Rapidly escalating profits, the internet, limited police resources and an unaware/apathetic community have created a brutal growth industry employing sophisticated business practices.
Cell phones and computers are too often not our childrens' friend. Many trafficking victims are bought and sold online, with social media sites used to recruit and exploit children.
Freed girls are often retaken by the slaveholders and returned to the streets of our communities, creating a deteriorating cycle of hopelessness and despair.
Human trafficking is a global epidemic, with sex trafficking being just one aspect of it. Selling and exploiting human beings for profit is the fastest growing criminal activity in today's world.
An estimated 300,000 children are at risk of sex trafficking in the United States.
The average entry age in the U.S. of being taken or exploited is 13 years old for girls and even younger for boys.
Rapidly escalating profits, the internet, limited police resources and an unaware/apathetic community have created a brutal growth industry employing sophisticated business practices.
Cell phones and computers are too often not our childrens' friend. Many trafficking victims are bought and sold online, with social media sites used to recruit and exploit children.
Freed girls are often retaken by the slaveholders and returned to the streets of our communities, creating a deteriorating cycle of hopelessness and despair.
Human trafficking is a global epidemic, with sex trafficking being just one aspect of it. Selling and exploiting human beings for profit is the fastest growing criminal activity in today's world.
An estimated 300,000 children are at risk of sex trafficking in the United States.
The average entry age in the U.S. of being taken or exploited is 13 years old for girls and even younger for boys.