"When a child has been recruited, transported, harbored, or received and some commercial element is introduced in the production of child pornography, then that individual has also engaged in child trafficking. Whether they work in strip clubs or sweatshops, these boys and girls are victims of human trafficking."

• Human trafficking has surpassed the illegal sale of arms "No More"
• Trafficking will surpass the illegal sale of drugs in the next few years
• Drugs are used once and they are gone. 
• Victims of child trafficking can be used and abused over and over
• A $32 billion-a-year industry, human trafficking is on the rise and is in all 50 states (U.S. Government)
• 4.5 Million of trafficked persons are sexually exploited
• Up to 300,000 Americans under 18 are lured into the commercial sex trade every year
• From 14,500 - 17,500 of those victims are trafficked into the United States each year

• Average victims age is 11 to 14
• Approx 80% are women and children bought, sold and imprisoned in the underground sex service industry

• Average life span of a victim is 3 to 7 years (found dead from attack, abuse, HIV and other STD's, malnutrition, overdose or suicide)

• The largest group of at-risk children are runaway, thrown away, or homeless American children who use survival sex to acquire food, shelter, clothing, and other things needed to survive on America's streets. 

• According to the National Runaway Switchboard  1.3 million runaway and homeless youth live on America's streets every day. [5,000 die each year] It would not be surprising to learn that the number of children trafficked in the United States is actually much higher than 300,000.

• Children are often targeted by traffickers as they are deemed easier to manipulate than adults. More money can be earned by younger girls and boys exploited in sexual exploitation, especially virgins. 

• Pre-pubescent girls are reported to be injected with hormones to bring on puberty. Younger girls are expected to have a greater earning potential, and as such are in greater demand. 

• Physical and Mental Consequences of Trafficking for victims;thumb Beaten

• Child victims of human trafficking face significant problems. Often physically and sexually abused, they have distinctive medical and psychological needs that must be addressed before advancing in the formative years of adulthood.

• Child victims of exploitation can face a number of long-term health problems:
• Sleeping and eating disorders
• Sexually transmitted diseases
• HIV/AIDS, pelvic pain, rectal trauma and urinary difficulties from working in the sex industry
• Drug addiction
• Chronic back, hearing, cardiovascular or respiratory problems from endless days toiling in dangerous agriculture, sweatshop or construction conditions
• Fear and anxiety
• Depression, mood changes
• Guilt and shame
• Cultural shock from finding themselves in a strange country
• Post traumatic Stress Disorder
• Traumatic bonding with the trafficker

Sex traffickers, human traffickers, pedophiles, organ traffickers....they quite often have a type they seek out. Sometimes that may be for a special order of a child, person, or for organ stealing.

Just this year in Australia alone on toddler was taken from his grandparents yard, he has never been seen again, there is no information to go on, the police have nothing. This readers is how easy it is. The police believe this little boy was taken by child-traffickers-pedophiles. They had quite obviously been watching this boy, the grandparents, parents....they waited for the exact right moment to take this child.

This readers is a story that is seen around the world, this happens to millions of children. This could be your child, your family that is being watched, and left utterly devastated by this loss and crime to your child.

You can not afford to not care, you can not afford to stick your head in the sand and say "Oh well that will never happen here to me, to our family, to our child"

Human traffickers are stalking families, children on the internet. This is real readers, this is happening every single day. Social media, gaming sites the worst. Facebook one of the worst. Facebook are also doing very little to combat anything, your privacy on FB, is non existent. They are selling your information to the highest bidder. Currently FB are being sued for doing this.