the tragedy of sex trafficking

  • Human trafficking is a US$150 billion industry.¹
  • It is the world’s fastest growing criminal enterprise.²
  • Of the 40 million victims worldwide, 10 million are children.³
  • ​One million children are victims of sexual exploitation.³ ​
  • Since 2007 the National Human trafficking hotline
    • Received 22,191 sex trafficking cases inside the U.S.
    • The number is increasing with an average of 100 cases per day.⁴
    • California has the highest number of calls of any state.⁶
  • 1 out of 6 endangered runaways were likely sex trafficking victims.⁵
  • It is estimated in the U.S. 100,000 – 300,000 children are vulnerable to being trafficked.⁴

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​Notes: 1 Global Slavery Index 2016, “Global Findings,“ http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/findings/. 2 Human Trafficking, State of California Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General https://oag.ca.gov/human-trafficking. 3 Global Estimates of Modern Slavery. International Labour Organization. http://www.ilo.org/global/publications/books/WCMS_575479/lang--en/index.htm. 4 The Facts, 2016, Polaris, http://polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/facts. 5 Child Sex Trafficking, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 2016, http://www.missingkids.org/1in6. 6 Hotline Statistics, https://humantraffickinghotline.org/states.