10+Sex+Trafficking

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The FBI estimates that more than 100,000 children and young women are trafficked in America today. With the age ranging from 9 to 19, and the average age being 11. Victims of sex trafficking include women, men, girls or boys, but the majority are women and girls. There are a number of most common ways for capturing victims into situations of sex trafficking, including: 1) A deal of a good job in another country 2) A false marriage turned into a bondage situation 3) Being sold into the sex trade by parents, husbands, boyfriends 4) Being kidnapped by traffickers. Sex traffickers use a variety of methods to “prepare” their victims including starvation, confinement, beatings, physical abuse, rape, gang rape, threats of violence to the victims and the victims’ families, forced drug use and the threat of shaming their victims by revealing their activities to their family and their families’ friends.

Every thirty seconds, another person becomes a victim or sex trafficking.

"20 million women and children have been trafficked into the gobal sex trade."

They are denied basic medical attention and are subjected to horrific human rights violations. The age of the average trafficking victim is becoming younger and younger everyday. Girls as young as 7 are being trafficked for prostitution. The average age of prostitutes being trafficked into certain Asian brothels ranges around 14. In South America, children as young as 12 are being kidnapped off the streets and then trafficked into Mexico. In the United States, trafficking has started to become a huge problem and gets worse everyday.

An estimated 14,500 and 17,500 women and children are trafficked into the United States each **year**, with New York, California, and Florida having the most victims.

Due to trafficking laws and legislation in some countries, human trafficking can be an extremely profitable business--with very few to none risks. According to INTERPOL, trafficking generated $19 billion annually.

The emotional and psychological impact of trafficked women is terrible. Over half of trafficking victims have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The severity of their PTSD symptoms are about the same to those of treatment-seeking combat veterans and refugees from state organized torture.

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