2. “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.” ―William Wilberforce There are more people in slavery today than any other time in history.

3. Traffickinghope.org

4. What is Human Sex Trafficking? The buying and selling of human beings for sexual purposes, forced labor, or any other coerced exploitation

5. COMMERCIAL SEXUAL ACT “Any sex act on account of which anything of value is given to or received by any person” (H.R. Res. 3244, 2000, Sec. 103.3)

6. Forms Of Commercial Sex Exploitation (CSE)  Pornography  Phone Sex  Live Sex And Peep Shows  Stripping/Striptease  Prostitution (Including Virtual Prostitution Or E-sex)

7. Common Settings for the Sale of Commercial Sex TYPICAL  Motels & Hotels  Massage Parlors  Escort Services  Late Night Diners  Night & Strip Clubs  Cars – Streets  Internet ATYPICAL  Auto Repair Shops  Chiropractic / Aromatherapy Offices  Acupuncture Clinics  Hairdressing Salons  Open Bamboo Fields  Parking Lots In Other Words – Anywhere

8. Important Terms to Define

9. Terminology PIMP BottomStables The FAMILY JOHN The Circuit {SLAVES}

10. Terminology  Lot Lizard - Prostitute who works truck stops  Carpet Ho - Prostitute who works hotels  Provider - Internet term for prostitute  Renegade - Prostitute who doesn’t have a pimp  Bottom - Prostitute who has been on street the longest, most trusted, recruiter  Stable - Amount of prostitutes working for pimp “Stable of 5” or “Strings”  Choose - Prostitute having to pick new pimp  Circuit - “Tracks” in this country travelled

11. Terminology  Pimp - Person who persuades, compels, entices, someone to become prostitute Other terms used for Pimp - Chulo, Daddy, Mack  Madam - Female Pimp, proprietress

13. Recording Human Trafficking

14. Trafficking in Persons (TIP)  TIP Report is a yearly report done by the U.S. Government as a tool to engage foreign governments on human trafficking.  It is the world’s most comprehensive resource of governmental anti-human trafficking efforts.  Inherent difficulty of estimating criminal activity, due to being done in secret.  General lack of information needed to make such estimations.  Failure to compare data appropriately  Until recently, there were no tic boxes on FBI and police reports to track human trafficking. Those cases were classified as missing persons, homicide, prostitution, or other.

16. Human Trafficking Facts

17.  Sex trafficking is legal nowhere but happens everywhere.  Estimated over 27 million people currently in bondage in human trafficking. More than at any other time in history.  Minimum 12.3 million estimated in illicit forms of forced labor (Belser, de Cock, & Mehran, 2005)  Every 30 seconds, a child is forced into sex trafficking  Human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world (US Dept of Health and Human Services)  $33.9 billion(US) estimated annual global profits from commercial sexual exploitation  On average, a pimp in the U.S. can make up to $600,000 per year on just 4 women or girls.

18.  Average price to purchase a human slave is $90  80% of trafficked victims are female  50% of trafficked victims are minors  70% of street gangs are involved in prostitution  77% of prostitutes were trafficked into the industry as a child  Trafficking does not have to involve movement across borders. (Theresa Flores was trafficked out of her own home for 4 years!)  Average age victim of entry into human trafficking for girls and boys is 11-13 years old. Ernie Allen, President of NCMEC, 7/21/09

19.  Within the first 48 hours of being on the street, 1/3 of children are lured into forced prostitution. National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway, and Thrown-away Children.  Nightly quota-service an average of 25-30 male clients per shift  Average time in "the life" is only 7 years-body gives out, OD, suicide, cervical cancer, STD's, AIDS  Traffickers allow women to carry one baby to term to use as leverage because a mom will do anything she can for that baby  Traffickers use tattoos as a tool of branding and control over their victims.  Only 1/100 or 1% are ever rescued

20. How Victims Are Trafficked

21.  Force – Involves the use of rape, beatings and confinement to control victims. Forceful violence is used especially during the early stages of victimization, known as the ‘seasoning process,’ which is used to break victim’s resistance to make them easier to control.  Fraud – Often involves false offers of employment. For example, women and children will reply to advertisements promising jobs as waitresses, maids and dancers in other countries and are then forced to prostitute once they arrive at their destinations.

22.  Coercion – Sometimes referred to as seasoning (Herman, 1997)--used to break women and girls into prostitution, is essential to understanding the power and control the masters of the prostitution industry have over their captives. Involves threats of serious harm to, or physical restraint of, victims of trafficking; any scheme, plan or pattern intended to cause victims to believe that failure to perform an act would result in restraint against them; or the abuse or threatened abuse of the legal process.

23. Top 3 Ways Victims Are Controlled  Pimp Controlled – The pimp builds relationship and creates dependence buying gifts, trips, becoming caretaker / “boyfriend”  Parent/Family – Sells child for income / drugs  Survival Sex – Homeless, runaway, sexual abuse victim

24. Important Information to Remember

25.  #1 Reason for Human Trafficking – The individuals who will pay money for sex. Demand.  Be careful not to make promises to victims. They have become prey for traffickers who have lured them into the sex industry with lies for a better future.  Confidentiality is vital.  Victims don’t typically self-identify as victims.  Victims live in intense fear.

26. POLARIS PROJECT, 2010 Medical Assessment Tool Patient is reluctant to explain or has inconsistencies when asked about his/her injury Patient is not aware of his/her location (i.e. city or state in) Patient has someone speaking for him/her Patient shows signs of physical or sexual abuse, medical neglect, untreated STIs and/or torture Patient exhibits fear, anxiety, depression, submission, tension, nervousness and/or avoids eye contact Patient is under 18 and is engaging in commercial sex or trading sex for something of value Patient has an unusually high number of sexual partners for his/her age

27. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN FORCED TO HAVE SEX TO PAY OFF A DEBT? DOES ANYONE HOLD YOUR IDENTITY DOCUMENT? HAVE PHYSICAL ABUSE OR THREATS FROM YOUR EMPLOYER MADE YOU FEARFUL TO LEAVE YOUR JOB? HAS ANYONE LIED TO YOU ABOUT THE TYPE OF WORK YOU WOULD BE DOING? WERE YOU EVER THREATENED WITH DEPORTATION OR JAIL IF YOU TRIED TO LEAVE YOUR SITUATION? POLARIS PROJECT, 2010 Questions you can ask…

28. Our C.A.R.E.S I N I T I A T I V E Our Cause is to eradicate Human Trafficking across the Globe. In 2007, we launched Trafficking Hope, an Anti-Human Trafficking organization. Our focus is to promote public awareness and education, as well as provide short and long term care for victims through our HOPE Houses.

37. Human Trafficking Resources

38.  Polaris Project - National Human Trafficking Hotline and Resource Center 24/7 Website: http://www.polarisproject.org ***sign up for newsletter*** http://www.polarisproject.org  Phone Hotline: 1-888-373-7888 or text BeFree (233733)  National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) Hotline 1-800-THE-LOST http://www.cybertipline.org http://www.cybertipline.org  FBI Field Office http://www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htmhttp://www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htm

39.  Dept. of Justice’s Human Trafficking Office 1-888-428-7581  Shared Hope: http://www.sharedhope.orghttp://www.sharedhope.org  Trafficking Hope: ***Sign up for trafficking report*** http://www.traffickinghope.org http://www.traffickinghope.org  Hope House of Louisiana: http://www.hopehouseofla.com http://www.hopehouseofla.com  See Something Send Something App  Like on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

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