Sex Trafficking Research

There are approximately twenty to thirty million slaves in the world today. It may not seem like it, because in America, trafficking is less of an issue than anywhere else. The average age of entry into slavery in America is fourteen to sixteen years old. Child trafficking victims, whether for labor, exploitation, or organ trafficking, come from all backgrounds, include both boys and girls. They span a wide age range from one to eighteen years old. Sex trafficking victims up to roughly twenty-five years old most often started as young as fourteen. Children are trafficked out of or into the United States from all regions of the world and represent a variety of different races, ethnic groups and religions. They may be brought to the U.S. legally

Nothing drives emotions out the window more than hearing about innocent children being used for sex. In Cambodia, sex trafficking has grown into a troublesome issue. Sex trafficking has become one of the fastest growing crimes occurring internationally. It is the third largest crime-business in the world, after drugs and arms trafficking. Women, girls, and even men and boys are victims of the billion-dollar sex trafficking industry. Sex trafficking occurs everywhere, and it is not culturally specific, but a gender specific issue. There are numerous cases of sex trafficking within Cambodia, however child sex trafficking is extremely captivating and distressing to learn about.

In this article we got to see the struggles that the girls went through from start to finish. It explained how the girls were promised better live but instead were forced to do these acts for many hours of the day every day of the week. It included the threats and rules the girls needed to follow. This information allows you to feel that you can understand and relate to what they went through. He explained that the police are trying to figure out what is the next step and what they can do to free other victims around the world.

Throughout this research into human sex trafficking, there will be a thorough review of the history of human trafficking. There will be an analysis of the victims and perpetrators. There will be a study of the risk, preventative, and resilience factors of the victims. This research will also scrutinize what the successive and unsuccessive factors.

There is many problems in this world today. One of those problems was unknown to me until I read a report from CNN’s reporter Sarah Sidner who is doing a five-part series on Sex Trafficking called the Freedom Report. In her first installment, she addresses that victims of this heinous crime are getting marked by their traffickers.

In one study of confirmed and suspected victims of domestic minor sex trafficking, 80% reported seeing a medical provider within the year prior to their identification as victims. Most presented to emergency departments (63%), but a significant proportion (35%) presented to a variety of outpatient clinic settings. Their health needs span both physical and behavioral health domains. CST is associated with sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV/AIDS, pregnancy, injuries from physical and sexual assault, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression with suicidality, and other behavior problems. Adolescent girls in one study had a 47% prevalence of STIs at the time of evaluation and a 32% rate of prior pregnancies. Forty-seven percent

In 2012 it was reported that 50% of humans being trafficked were underage; 76% of those were underage girls being bought and sold online for sex(1). The effect of sex trafficking of minors is detrimental; from sexually transmitted diseases, drug use and abuse, sleeping and eating disorders, psychological issues, depression and suicide to name a few (1). Twelve-year-old girls should be thinking about a new Justin Beiber CD, not an STD; thirteen-year-old boys shooting heroine to numb the pain of continued sexual abuse instead of trying out for the football team at school is wrong. The US isn't

After her father raped her, Jean became one of the hundreds of thousands kids in the United States long-term foster care, a system that often leaves children more damaged than when they arrive. For Jean, selling sex seemed like a safer bet. Her experience is not unfortunately not uncommon for the thousands of child sex trafficking victims in the United States. These children are forced into prostitution and other heinous acts by sex traffickers, or “pimps”. Buyers, called “johns” create a great demand for these services which is causing the industry to grow dramatically. In the United States, victims of sex trafficking experience emotional and physical suffering because of their involvement at young ages, and the government needs to more

Listening to the horrifying survival stories of young sex trafficking victims in countries like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka is sure to strike a nerve, but the idea of modern-day slavery happening closer to home is unthinkable. Although traffickers are not the first thing that cross a parent's mind when dropping their daughter off at the mall, they are more prevalent in our first world society than many may assume, and often go unnoticed in the United States. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights established a list of basic rights entitled to all humans, but unfortunately, traffickers disregard these rights when luring vulnerable young girls to work for them (“What is the Universal”). Nonprofit organizations,

With the development of social networking sites, chat rooms, and other web based communication sites, cyber-sex trafficking has hit record highs. According to “What is Sex trafficking” (2015), sex trafficking occurs when a person uses force, fraud, or coercion for a commercial sex act with either an adult or a child (“What is Sex Trafficking,” 2015). Sex trafficking is not only limited to women and girls, this heinous crime also affects males and young boys. Sex trafficking is a vicious cycle that incorporates the trafficker, the victim, and the buyer. The victim is the adult or child being brought into the sex trafficking ring. The trafficker lures the victim in often by promises of a better life and the buyer is the criminal who purchases

because we will never know what prostitutes, and sex traffickers go through in order to resolve the issue around the world. More importantly the methods that will be used, and implied will be the following: respondent driven sampling, such as collecting data on prostitutes, recorded interviews, sex surveys, etc. just to name a few.

Growing up, we are taught at school that slavery has been abolished, but does that mean it is an irrelevant problem today? It is true that slavery is not visible to the general public today; however, modern-day slavery exists, and it is a form of human trafficking, known as sex trafficking. Lack of awareness and ignorance allow sex industries to thrive and be successful around the world. Every year, numerous amount of people are abducted and forced into prostitution against their will, which makes traveling abroad dangerous for everyone. While the issue remains hidden, more and more traffickers are taking advantage to exploit innocent people who are vulnerable regardless of race and age.

Sex Trafficking is the use or threat of force, coercion, or deception to induce a person to perform a commercial sex act ("Human Trafficking Overview"). An estimation of 700,000 women are enslaved on a global scale. And an estimation of 50,000 people will come to the United States (Edwards 41). According to Interpol, profits from this trade top 19 billion dollars yearly. Congressional sources estimate that 50,000 persons are trafficked into the United States yearly and 2 million worldwide (Edwards 41). Human Trafficking has recently been described as “the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world” (Nye 24) Each year organizations across the world try to stop sex trafficking by making it known to people by having assemblies or even festivals.

There are a plethora of global issues that concern me, though I have found great interest in the issues of Child Sex Trafficking. Article 4. of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights states, "No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms." It was quite repulsive to realize that some of the uniformed officials, who are plausible to protecting these young girls, are selling and purchasing them.

There are a total of 17.9 million children in Thailand under the age of 18, which includes homeless children, runaway children, children who live in poverty, or children who have a disability SOS CHILDREN. The estimated number of children in commercial sexual exploitation today in Thailand varies from 600,000 to 800,000 SEX TRAFFICKING BOOK. More than 80% of these victims are women and girls, and 70% of them are forced into sexual servitude SEX TRAFFICKING BOOK. When a person obtains children for the purpose of sexual exploitation or child pornography and plan to victimize these children for illegal activities, this is defined as commercial sexual exploitation Commercial Sexual Exploitation Fact Sheet. UNICEF Commercial Sexual Exploitation, which includes child trafficking, child pornography, and child sex tourism U.S DEPT, is one of the fastest growing and most profitable criminal activities in the world. CHILD TRAFFICKING. Thailand is the beginning destination and transit country for men, women, and children exposed to forced labor and sex trafficking U.S. Department of State – Thailand or SEX TRAFFICKING BOOK. We need to prevent child trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation by fighting the demand for sex and cutting the supply of children. The existing research on commercial sexual exploitation of children has primarily focused on why children entered the commercial sexual exploitation market, but few studies have looked at how the children entered the market SEX