The Facts
- Owning sex slaves is very lucrative, and slaveholders are seldom prosecuted.
- Rapidly escalating profits, the internet, limited police resources and a blind community have created a brutal growth industry employing sophisticated business practices.
- Freed girls are often retaken by the slaveholders and returned to the streets of our communities, creating a deteriorating cycle of hopelessness and despair.
- An estimated 300,000 children are held for sex trafficking in the United States.
- The average age of being taken or exploited is 13.
- Rapidly escalating profits, the internet, limited police resources and a blind community have created a brutal growth industry employing sophisticated business practices.
- Freed girls are often retaken by the slaveholders and returned to the streets of our communities, creating a deteriorating cycle of hopelessness and despair.
- An estimated 300,000 children are held for sex trafficking in the United States.
- The average age of being taken or exploited is 13.