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

From The Schapiro Group, an independent research firm, to design and deploy a pilot study to quantify the extent of the problem in Georgia.