Title: Human Sex Trafficking — LEB
Headings: Human Sex Trafficking
Human Sex Trafficking
HUMAN SEX TRAFFICKING
The Scope
The Operation
NATIONAL PROBLEM WITH LOCAL TIES
The Federal Level
The Local Level
“The United States not only faces an influx of international victims but also has its own homegrown problem of interstate sex trafficking of minors.”
Anytown, USA
“Local and state criminal justice officials must understand that these cases are not isolated incidents that occur infrequently.”
INVESTIGATION OF HUMAN SEX TRAFFICKING
Strategies
Patrol Officers
Detectives/Investigators
Other Considerations
“Traffickers represent every social, ethnic, and racial group.”
CONCLUSION
Endnotes
“Today, the business of human sex trafficking is much more organized and violent.”

Content: Other young people are recruited into prostitution through forced abduction, pressure from parents, or through deceptive agreements between parents and traffickers. Once these children become involved in prostitution, they often are forced to travel far from their homes and, as a result, are isolated from their friends and family. Few children in this situation can develop new relationships with peers or adults other than the person victimizing them. The lifestyle of such youths revolves around violence, forced drug use, and constant threats. 8
Among children and teens living on the streets in the United States, involvement in commercial sex activity is a problem of epidemic proportion. Many girls living on the street engage in formal prostitution, and some become entangled in nationwide organized crime networks where they are trafficked nationally. Criminal networks transport these children around the United States by a variety of means—cars, buses, vans, trucks, or planes—and often provide them counterfeit identification to use in the event of arrest. The average age at which girls first become victims of prostitution is 12 to 14. It is not only the girls on the streets who are affected; boys and transgender youth enter into prostitution between the ages of 11 and 13 on average.