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 children's friend. Many trafficking victims are bought and sold online, with using 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.
- An estimated 300,000 children are a risks 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 children's friend. Many trafficking victims are bought and sold online, with using 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.
- An estimated 300,000 children are a risks 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.