Los Angeles Adult Entertainment: Baylor University Joins Move to Fight Human Trafficking
Ironically, that weekend a North Carolina woman was charged with selling her 5-year-old daughter into sexual slavery. The girl was murdered, and her body was found the next week, CBS reported.
More than 27 million people worldwide are enslaved, according to estimates from the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of State. Approximately 18,000 to 20,000 are brought into the United States yearly, but new research indicates that more American citizens are being trafficked internally than foreigners being brought in and trafficked, Kotrla said.
Youths — especially runaways — are most often the victims, she said.
“There are likely 300,000 American youths being exploited in prostitution, stripping, pornography and other ways,” she said. “We used to see them as juvenile delinquents, but we’re beginning to look at them differently, as children being victimized rather than ‘bad kids.’”
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