Human Trafficking

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of Data, an estimated 600,000 to 820,000 men, women, and children are trafficked across international borders each year, approximately 80% are women and girls and up to 50 percent are minors. The data also illustrates that the majority of transnational victims are trafficked into commercial sexual exploitation. Its is estimated that each year about 17,500 individuals are brought into the United States and held against their will as victims of human trafficking. Some estimate the number is as high as 60,000 annually. (humantraffickinged.com)
The perpetrator, or the “primary enterprise” supplying this crime, is a person who can be compared to a pimp. This individual generally exploits vulnerabilities or lack of opportunities while offering promises of marriage, employment, education and an overall better life. In the end, traffickers force victims to become prostitutes or work in the sex industry. Various work in the sex industry includes prostitution, dancing in strip clubs, ...

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