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1 in 4 Teen Girls are Subjected to Teen Dating Vi0lence
The reality is that 70% of the teens in the United States are dating without their parents knowledge or consent. Many studies reveal that teens are dating as young as 10 and involved in intimate relationships. Adolescent females are victimized more so than males and adolescents are unfortunately exposed to porn online.
Percent of Human Trafficking Victims are Sex Slaves
Globally, an estimated 71% of enslaved people are women and girls. This demand has grown rapidly in the past 10 years and now affecting many countries throughout the world. Most commercial sex groups utilize the Internet to market their female commodities.
Percent of the Victims in the Commercial Sex Trade are Children
Within the past 5 years the demand on female children as young as 8 with the average demand being 11 years old make up over 51% of the demand and growing rapidly in the commercial sex trade. These children are drugged, raped continuiously, forced to watch porn movies so that they will know how to sexually perform prior to being sold to a "John."
Children are Subjected to Over 30 Men a Day
Child victims are forced to have sex experiencing up to 30 rapes or more times a day and with multiple people at any given time. The life expectancy of forced sex trafficking of a child victim is 7 years and after that cleaned from drugs and killed for the purpose of selling their organs. Studies have revealed most "Johns" who purchase sex are over the age of 35 and have children.
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To create solutions that will give teen & tween girls the skills that can prevent domestic violence before it happens and protect against predators.
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Teen girls are lured, coerced or kidnapped from school grounds, walking home from school, abducted off their front porch, in a parking lot or setup by someone they thought they trusted, just to find themselves sex trafficked, being sold as a slave for sex, sometimes up to 30 times a day in exchange for money. The commercial sex industry is targeting teen girls as young as 8 years of age at alarming rates. CHILDREN ARE BEING ABDUCTED EVERY 7 MINUTES.
In addition, 1 in 4 teen girls are subjected to teen dating violence.
Understanding the pervasiveness of sex trafficking and teen dating violence along with how to avoid the lures of being trafficked or abused is essential.
Educating utilizing a user-friendly sex trafficking and teen dating violence awareness and prevention tool is key to safeguarding tween and teen girls.
• Among female victims 94% of those age 16-19 and 70% of those age 20-24 were victimized by a current or former boyfriend or girlfriend.
• Violent behavior typically begins between the ages of 12 and 18.
• The severity of intimate partner violence is often greater in cases where the pattern of abuse was established in adolescence.
• 1 in 5 women and 1 in 59 men in the United States is raped during his/her lifetime.
• 19.3 million women and 5.1 million men in the United States have been stalked.
• Intimate partner victimization is correlated with a higher rate of depression and suicidal behavior.
• Violent relationships in adolescence can have serious ramifications by putting the victims at higher risk for substance abuse.
• Additional, risk is eating disorders, risky sexual behavior and further domestic violence.
• Being physically or sexually abused makes teen girls six times more likely to become pregnant and twice as likely to get a STI.
♦ Estimates suggest that, internationally, only about .04% survivors of human trafficking cases are identified,
♦ Human trafficking earns global profits of roughly $150 billion a year for traffickers, $99 billion of which comes from commercial sexual exploitation.
♦ Estimates suggest that about 50,000 people are trafficked into the US each year, most often from Mexico and the Philippines.
♦ In 2018, over half (51.6%) of the criminal human trafficking cases active in the US were sex trafficking cases involving only children.
♦ Reports indicate that a large number of child sex trafficking survivors in the US were at one time in the foster care system.
♦ Advocates report a growing trend of traffickers using online social media platforms to recruit and advertise targets of human trafficking.
♦ The average age a teen enters the sex trade in the US is 12 to 14 years old. Many victims are runaway girls who were sexually abused as children.
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Teen dating violence against girls and predators seeking adolescent girls for the purpose of sex trafficking is real. LTAB provides the latest news and updates.
