WHAT IS SEX TRAFFICKING

Sex Trafficking Is A Crime and Inhumane!

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA, 2000) defines sex trafficking as the “recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for one of three purposes: labor or services, commercial sex act through the use of force, fraud, or coercion, and any commercial sex act if the person is under 18 years of age, regardless of coercion.”

NATIONAL STATISTICS

Trafficking is the fastest growing industry and second largest criminal enterprise in the United States (US Department of Justice, 2010; Urban Institute, 2014)

244,000 – 325,000 children are at risk of being victimized by DMST in the U.S. every year (Estes & Weiner, 2001)

100,000 children are forced into the sex slavery industry annually (missingkids.com)

The average age of entry into the commercial sex market for children is between 12 and 14 years old (sharedhope.org)

1 in 6 reported endangered runaways are believed to be victims of child sex trafficking (missingkids.com)

Size of commercial sex economy in major U.S. cities ranges from an estimated $39 million – $290 million per year (Urban Institute, 2014)

GEORGIA

STATISTICS

Atlanta has been identified as one of the cities with the highest incidences of child sex trafficking (FBI, 2005; Urban Institute, 2014)

Between 200 – 400 adolescent girls are sold online per month (The Shapiro Group, 2010)

Approximately 65% of men who purchase sex with female children in Atlanta live in suburban areas outside the I-285 perimeter (The Shapiro Group, 2010)

Traffickers in Atlanta make an average of $33,000 per week (Urban Institute, 2014)

7,200 men purchase sex from a minor every month in Georgia accounting for 8,700 sex acts (The Shapiro Group, 2010)

91% of DMST victims in Georgia were enrolled in school at the time of their exploitation (Georgia Cares, 2016)