Sex-trafficking
awareness
Child Sex Trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, or advertising of a minor child for the purpose of a commercial sex act, which involves the exchange of anything of value- such as money, drugs, or a place to stay- for sexual activity. - NCMEC
In the U.S., on average, every two minutes, a child is bought or sold for sex.
The average age of a child sold for sex is 13 years old.
The Statistics
Human Trafficking is the fastest growing organized crime activity in the United States, making almost 32 Billion dollars a year for traffickers.
Nearly 70% of those transactions now take place online.
The internet was by far the most dominate business model sex traffickers used to solicit buyers of commercial sex. It was used in 87.7% of sex trafficking cases active in 2018.
The internet was the most common method for luring victims. It was used in 42.5% of sex trafficking cases active in 2018.
Over 99% of trafficked individuals trapped in forced sexual exploitation are women.
In 2017, NCMEC estimated that 1 in 7 endangered runaways reported were likely sex trafficking victims.
Over 21% of those trafficked for sex are children.
