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Human Trafficking Stats​
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Trafficking is highly personal: most people are comfortable with their trafficker
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42% were brought into trafficking by a member of their own families
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39% were recruited via an intimate partner or a marriage proposition
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During lockdowns, the internet became the top recruitment location for trafficking
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13 years old is the average age someone is entered into trafficking
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Human trafficking earns profits of roughly $150 billion a year for traffickers
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Sexual exploitation earns 66% of the global profits of human trafficking​
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Learning Resources
Definition of Human Trafficking
"Joining Lives" - Andy Odle"Scars and Stilettos" - Harmony Dust
"Escaping the Devil's Bedroom" - Dawn Herzog Jewell
"Justice Awakening" - Eddie Byun
"Tattoos on the Heart" - Gregory Boyle
"The Slave Next Door" - Kevin Bales
"A Crime So Monstrous" - E. Benjamin Skinner
"Half the Sky" - Nicholas D. Kristof
"Toxic Charity" - Robert D. Lupton
"The Just Church" - Jim Martin
"When Helping Hurts" - Steve Corbett
“In Pursuit of Love” - Rebecca Bender
Important Awareness Dates
National Human Trafficking Awareness Day - January 11th
National Human Trafficking Hotline from PolarisProject:
Call 1 (888) 373-7888; *Text "BeFree” 233733; Live Chat
Local Crisis Hotline from Turning Point for Madison County: call (765) 227-2585
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