Human Trafficking a/k/a  Modern Slavery is “the largest slave trade in history” of mankind.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING AFFECTS ALL GENDER, RACE, NATIONALITY, AGE, AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS - IT DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE, THEREFORE, NO GROUP OF PEOPLE ARE EXEMPT.

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Traffickers prey of those with unmet needs, offers to fill those needs by force, fraud, or coercion. 

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Trafficking can happen anywhere: social media platforms, video games, clubs, telephone chat-lines, after school programs, on the streets, libraries, sports activities, in shopping malls, or even in your home (familial trafficking).

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• America is #1 in the world for the origin of human trafficking victims, according to the Department of State. Followed by Mexico and the Philippines.

• Florida has the 3rd-highest number of human trafficking cases prosecuted in federal court, behind only California and Texas.

• Dade County is #1 in sex trafficking in Florida, according to the federal government.

• Broward County ranks #1 in the tri-county area for the most multi-victim human trafficking cases.

• Only 1% of human trafficking victims are rescued of the 40 million victims worldwide.

• According to the International Center for Missing and Exploited Children, over One million children worldwide are missing each year.

• In 2022 National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) received more than 19,000 reports of possible child sex trafficking. See, https://www.missingkids.org/theissues/trafficking 

• Each year approx. 300,000 American children are at risk for sexual exploitation.

• 98% of sex trafficking victims are women and girls.

• 85% of all confirmed cases in the USA are American born citizens.

• The U.S. Department of Labor has identified 148 goods from 75 countries made by forced and child labor.

• 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 5 boys are sexually assaulted by age 18.

• 11-13 years old is the average age a child enters the commercial sex trade.

• Up to 90% of minor victims are controlled by pimps.

• 1 in 5 youths receive sexual solicitation on the internet.

• According to the United Nations, human trafficking is in every country worldwide.

• The value of the human trafficking industry is 150 billion dollars and growing.

• Federal statistics show that some victims are sold for sex up to 20 times a day, 7 days per week, and traffickers make between $150,000 and $200,000 a year for each person they sell for sex – sex slaves.

• Within 48 hours of running away, 1 in 3 runaways are lured into sex trafficking or pornography.

• According to NCMEC, “1.6 and 2.8 million youth run away each year in the U.S.”

• According to the US Department of State, many sex trafficking victims were in the foster care system. Homelessness is another major vulnerability.

• According to the Department of Children and Family (DCF), most sex trafficked children in Broward County are black girls from the general community.

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