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Trafficking FAQs
- Human trafficking is now the 2nd largest and fastest growing illegal trafficking activity in the world. (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2008)
- The annual market value of human trafficking is $32+ billion. (Ibid.) 80% of victims are women and 50% are children. (Trafficking in Persons Report 2007, U.S. Department of State)
- Globally, one million children are forced to work in the sex industry every year.
(Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, 2007)
- Among the millions trafficked each year, hundreds of thousands are teenage girls, some as young as five years of age. (Ibid)
- In the U.S., handlers, “pimps,” can make $100,000 a year, per child. Child sex slaves serve from 100 to 1500 clients a year, per child. (Ibid)
- Child pornography is a multi-billion dollar industry and among the fastest growing criminal segments on the Internet. Child pornography fuels the child sex trade. (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)
- 450,000 children run away from home each year in the U.S.. A third of those lured into sex slavery are taken within 48 hours of leaving home. (Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, 2007)
- More than 100,000 children are involved in sex slavery in the U.S. (Ibid)
- The average age of entry into sex slavery in the U.S. is 13 years of age. (Ibid)
- Fewer than 1,000 of the 100,000 child sex slaves in the U.S. have been assisted by federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies since 2001. (Ibid)
- 10% of trafficked children were kidnaped. Children have been kidnaped in broad daylight, in Tucson. (Karla Dial, “Reaching Into the Dark,” Citizen Magazine, March 2010, 5)
- You can hire a teenager for sex . . . today . . . in Tucson . . . on the Internet.
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