Every Year: v      200,000 American children are at risk for trafficking into the sex industry   v      14,500 - 17,500 people are trafficked into the USA   v      5,000 - 7,000 people are trafficked into the USA from East Asia and the Pacific   v      3,500 - 5,500 people are trafficked into the USA from each region:  Latin America, Europe and Eurasia     Sources: Assessment of U.S. Government Activities to Combat Trafficking in Persons, 2004    Report to Congress from Attorney General John Ashcroft on U.S. Government Efforts to Combat Trafficking, 2003)

First Annual CAHT Awareness Walk

Human Trafficking is modern day slavery. It takes many forms:

Labor Trafficking: includes the use of force, fraud, or coercion to make people work against their will. Traffickers often use physical restraints, beatings, or threats against the victims and their families to prevent them from leaving. Sometimes traffickers seize victims' identity documents so they cannot leave. Often victims are told they cannot leave a job until they pay off a debt.

Sex Trafficking: the use of force, fraud, or coercion for commercial sex. Traffickers use physical force, threats, and psychological abuse in order to maintain control over victims. Traffickers tell victims that they will be arrested or deported if they call the police. Any one under the age of 18 cannot consent and is considered a trafficking victim if involved in the commercial sex industry.

Traffickers prey upon the vulnerability of their victims. Groups such as children, immigrants, individuals with drug addictions, and people with mental health problems are often targets. However, anyone can fall into the hands of a trafficker.

 

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