WHAT IS IT...

Sex Trafficking - a commercial sex act induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained 18 years of age.

Labor Trafficking - the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

Ritualistic Abuse - Ritual abuse is an extreme, sadistic form of abuse of children and non-consenting adults. It is methodical, systematic sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual abuse, which often includes mind control, torture, and highly illegal and immoral activities such as murder, child pornography and prostitution. The abuse is justified by a religious or political ideology.

FORCE, FRAUD, OR COERCION

Human trafficking happens around the world. “There are an estimated 25 million trafficking victims worldwide” (Polaris Project). Victims are often forced to engage in prostitution, pornography, exotic dancing or ritualistic abuse.

Human trafficking is the second fastest growing criminal enterprise behind drug trafficking.

There is no one consistent face of a trafficker. Traffickers include a wide range of criminal operators, including individual pimps, small families or businesses, loose-knit decentralized criminal networks, and international organized criminal syndicates.