People of all ages and sizes are pull apart from their lives because they are oppressed into trafficking and vanishing into places that no one know and are being used as object for coerced labor or sexual need.. Often these people are scared and they live through their lives with the constant thought of abuse, slavery, and the thoughts of rape. Also many of the victims that are trafficked are women and young children. The children and women selected usually come from a poverty struck background where their children get no education. All children no matter what age are targets aging from as young as 9 years of age to 18. Truthfully everyone can be susceptible to being a victim, no matter their ethnicity or economic status.
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only, for the use of forced labor and sex labor. This number was later reduced to the range of about 18,000-20,000 victims, later on this number dropped to 14,000-17,500 victims. This sources shows no evidence to how these numbers were created. An additional source shows that there were about a range of 30,000-300,000 victims of sex trafficking. The sources are vastly different in the senses their numbers, but a trend that both of the agencies have is that they range in the thousands. Since Trafficking is a underground business the number a all over the place. The data offered is just an estimate of how many victims there are but in reality there can be far more or far less victims. The United States gets their victims from their neighbouring countries such as Mexico, Thailand, and Guatemala. An estimate of 15,000 people are being trafficked into the U.S. every year. Many victims come from poverty and malnourished backgrounds which make them an easy target. Many of the victims are children, but specifically girls. They target virgin girls because they have a low risk of HIV and Aids. The U.S. Which is a 1st world country has thousands of trafficking cases every year. Trafficking is high in demand and the customers are willing to pay any amount for a good purchase. These victims are taken from their families and are put into a long nightmare. The high demand actually increase the economical status of some cities. A report by the Urban Institute in 2014 estimated that the underground trafficking economy ranges from about 40 million in Denver, Colorado to a astonishing 290 million in Atlanta, Georgia. According to Gale Student Resources, 1.1 million Sex Trafficking
only, for the use of forced labor and sex labor. This number was later reduced to the range of about 18,000-20,000 victims, later on this number dropped to 14,000-17,500 victims. This sources shows no evidence to how these numbers were created. An additional source shows that there were about a range of 30,000-300,000 victims of sex trafficking. The sources are vastly different in the senses their numbers, but a trend that both of the agencies have is that they range in the thousands. Since Trafficking is a underground business the number a all over the place. The data offered is just an estimate of how many victims there are but in reality there can be far more or far less victims. The United States gets their victims from their neighbouring countries such as Mexico, Thailand, and Guatemala. An estimate of 15,000 people are being trafficked into the U.S. every year. Many victims come from poverty and malnourished backgrounds which make them an easy target. Many of the victims are children, but specifically girls. They target virgin girls because they have a low risk of HIV and Aids. The U.S. Which is a 1st world country has thousands of trafficking cases every year. Trafficking is high in demand and the customers are willing to pay any amount for a good purchase. These victims are taken from their families and are put into a long nightmare. The high demand actually increase the economical status of some cities. A report by the Urban Institute in 2014 estimated that the underground trafficking economy ranges from about 40 million in Denver, Colorado to a astonishing 290 million in Atlanta, Georgia. According to Gale Student Resources, 1.1 million Sex Trafficking