Sex Trafficking Facts

Fourteen Indicted In Child Sex Trafficking Ring - News Story - KRDO Colorado Springs

Fourteen Indicted In Child Sex Trafficking Ring - News Story - KRDO Colorado Springs







Every day, hundreds of girls fall prey to pimps and traffickers, commercially exploited for sex through force, fraud, or coercion.

There are as many as 2.8 million children who live on the streets. Within 48 hours of leaving home,

1/3 are lured into prostitution.

12 years old is the average age of girls who are forced into prostitution. There are less than 50 beds in shelters dedicated to trafficked minors.

• Experts estimate at least 100,000 American juveniles are victimized through prostitution each year.(Shared Hope)After drug dealing, human trafficking is the second largest criminal industry in the world today and fastest growing.

• Sex traffickers use a variety of methods to “condition” 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 threats.(Department of Health & Human Services)

• Colorado’s one of the “Dirty Dozen” in a ranking by a national group that monitors human trafficking.The Polaris Project says Colorado is one of the worst states when it comes to stopping the criminals.(KRDO. News Channel 13, Colorado Springs)

Here are a few media links to read about more trafficking in Colorado and the US.

http://www.9news.com/rss/story.aspx?storyid=237542

http://www.forbes.com/sites/meghancasserly/2012/01/24/girls-for-sale-rachel-lloyd-human-trafficking-exploitation/

http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_19856313?source=pkg

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_19864738#ixzz1l9Lgnd6o