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: Traffickers use force, drugs, emotional tactics, and financial methods to control their victims. They have an especially easy time establishing a strong bond with young girls. These perpetrators may promise marriage and a lifestyle the youths often did not have in their previous familial relationships. They claim they “love” and “need” the victim and that any sex acts are for their future together. In cases where the children have few or no positive male role models in their lives, the traffickers take advantage of this fact and, in many cases, demand that the victims refer to them as “daddy,” making it tougher for the youths to break the hold the perpetrator has on them. Sometimes, the traffickers use violence, such as gang rape and other forms of abuse, to force the youths to work for them and remain under their control. One victim, a runaway from Baltimore County, Maryland, was gang raped by a group of men associated with the trafficker, who subsequently staged a “rescue.” He then demanded that she repay him by working for him as one of his prostitutes. In many cases, however, the victims simply are beaten until they submit to the trafficker’s demands. In some situations, the youths have become addicted to drugs.