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Human trafficking is a $150B industry. It is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world.
Traffickers target and stalk their prey. Early kindness while recruiting victims quickly turns to cruelty and abuse. Captives are brainwashed to believe they are worthless, unloved, and deserving of the horrible treatment they receive.
Sex trafficking will likely touch you or someone you know. Modern day traffickers are actively targeting youth in our community; at schools, parks, shopping malls, clubs, parties, and online.
Convicted sex traffickers tell us they are not pimps, but businessmen. How-to manuals, guides, and YouTube videos teach the art of seducing someone into “the life”. Sex traffickers do not care about social status or economic background. They simply look for vulnerability. Children are particularly vulnerable.
Spreading awareness about child sex trafficking is Not In My Neighborhood Group's mission. We believe that awareness is the first step toward prevention. Through our public awareness meetings, NIMN Group empowers individuals in our communities to unite and say "NO" to child sex trafficking in our neighborhoods.
Traffickers target and stalk their prey. Early kindness while recruiting victims quickly turns to cruelty and abuse. Captives are brainwashed to believe they are worthless, unloved, and deserving of the horrible treatment they receive.
Sex trafficking will likely touch you or someone you know. Modern day traffickers are actively targeting youth in our community; at schools, parks, shopping malls, clubs, parties, and online.
Convicted sex traffickers tell us they are not pimps, but businessmen. How-to manuals, guides, and YouTube videos teach the art of seducing someone into “the life”. Sex traffickers do not care about social status or economic background. They simply look for vulnerability. Children are particularly vulnerable.
Spreading awareness about child sex trafficking is Not In My Neighborhood Group's mission. We believe that awareness is the first step toward prevention. Through our public awareness meetings, NIMN Group empowers individuals in our communities to unite and say "NO" to child sex trafficking in our neighborhoods.
$32 billionTotal yearly profits, in U.S. dollars, generated by the human trafficking industry.
Source: Polaris Project 5-6%5-6% of U.S. men have bought sex in the past year. An additional 30% say they might buy sex in the future “if the circumstances were right.”
Source: Demand Abolition 2017 study; demandabolition@huntalternatives.org |
100,000Experts estimate at least 100,000 American juveniles are victimized through prostitution in America each year.
Source: Shared Hope International 79,00079,000 children are victims of sex trafficking in Texas each year.
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Child sex trafficking (CST) involves the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, or advertising of a minor child for the purpose of a commercial sex act. Sex trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery in which individuals perform commercial sex through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. Minors under the age of 18 engaging in commercial sex are considered to be victims of human trafficking, regardless of the use of force, fraud, or coercion. Sex traffickers target victims and then use violence, threats, lies, false promises, debt bondage, or other forms of control and manipulation to keep victims involved in the sex industry for their own profit. Sex trafficking exists within diverse and unique sets of venues and businesses including fake massage businesses, escort services, residential brothels, in public on city streets and in truck stops, strip clubs, hostess clubs, hotels and motels, and elsewhere. Purchasers of children for sex encompass all racial, socio-economic and cultural statuses. It has a devastating consequences for its minor victims, including long lasting physical and psychological trauma, disease, or even death.