THE AVERAGE AGE OF TRAFFICKING VICTIMS IS 12 YEARS OLD
Child Trafficking: is the the business of taking children away from their homes and families, transporting them elsewhere, often across frontiers and even to other continents, to be put to use by others, usually to make money.
Every year as many as 300,000 U.S. children may be forced into sexual slavery.
UNICEF values the global market of child trafficking at over $12 million a year with over 2 million child victims.
Over four children are sold into the sex trade every minute.
Women and children are often kidnapped into the industry or sold into it by family under desperate circumstances. The average age of victims continues to grow younger as clients seek "fresh" product.
Child sex trafficking includes any child involved in commercial sex.
Throughout the U.S., girls are being bought and sold by adults to adults. Girls are sold on the streets, in strip-clubs, brothels, truck-stops and with increasing frequency on internet sites like Craigslist and Backpage.
A severe form of sex trafficking is a crime in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age.
Every year as many as 300,000 U.S. children may be forced into sexual slavery.
UNICEF values the global market of child trafficking at over $12 million a year with over 2 million child victims.
Over four children are sold into the sex trade every minute.
Women and children are often kidnapped into the industry or sold into it by family under desperate circumstances. The average age of victims continues to grow younger as clients seek "fresh" product.
Child sex trafficking includes any child involved in commercial sex.
Throughout the U.S., girls are being bought and sold by adults to adults. Girls are sold on the streets, in strip-clubs, brothels, truck-stops and with increasing frequency on internet sites like Craigslist and Backpage.
A severe form of sex trafficking is a crime in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age.