SEX TRAFFICKING
The average age that a child is forced into sex trafficking in the United States is 12-14 years old. Many of these children may still be living at home and/or going to school while they are forced into prostitution.
Signs of trafficking may include:
+ Frequent, unexplained absences from school.
+ Runs away from home often.
+ Shows signs of physical trauma, anxiety, fear
+ Exhibits signs of drug addiction
+ Is dating someone or has a 'friend' considerably older
+ Is secretive or concerned about their own safety or the safety of their family
Georgia Human Trafficking Statistics
+ In 2012, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center received 446 calls from Georgia, 103 of which were classified as high-risk.
+ 5,000 girls are at-risk of being sex trafficked in Georgia
+ According to a farmer FBI agent Atlanta has an internal trafficking problem, where minors, many recruited from the city are transferred to another county or state.
+ Approximately 374 girls are commercially sexually exploited monthly in Georgia. Average age of entry into the commercial sex market for girls is 12 and 14 years.
+ Each month 12,400 men in Georgia pay for sex with a young woman and 7,2000 of them end up exploiting an adolescent female. Around 65% of men who buy sex with young females do so in and around suburban and metro Atlanta with 9% near the airport.
+ Atlanta has the highest number of trafficked Hispanic females in the nation.
+ On average, 100 juvenile girls are exploited each night in Georgia