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Human sex trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery that involves compelling or coercing a person by force, fraud, or coercion to engage in commercial sex acts.
According to the U.S. Department of State, over two million people are commercially sex trafficked in the United States each year with a staggering 51% of those sex trafficking victims being minor children.
It’s been further reported that sex Human Trafficking generates over $9.5 billion in revenue in the United States alone, making sex Human Trafficking the second largest most profitable criminal enterprise next to the sale of illegal narcotics with the difference of sex trafficking and illegal narcotic sales being that once a person consumes an illegal narcotic, the drug traffickers then need to resupply, which means that drug traffickers will have to again and again make contact with the illegal narcotics distributor, transport the illegal narcotics, avoiding law enforcement detection and arrest as well as having to avoid and out maneuver other rival well-armed violent drug traffickers, violent street gangs, cartels, and members of organized crime over drug turf territory, where with sex trafficking victims, there is less risk of a risk, detection, and with sex trafficking victims, they are forced to continue to perform sexual acts over and over generating more profit with much less overhead to sex Human Traffickers.
Human smuggling is the illegal movement of people across the border.
Human Trafficking is the illegal exploitation of a person.
Human sex Trafficking occurs when a predator, known as a Human Trafficker, engages in the acts of force, fraud or coercion to groom, recruitment, transport, and harbor victims of sex Human Trafficking for the purpose of exploiting victims to engage in sex acts for the purpose of financing the Human Sex Trafficker’s criminal enterprise.
Human Sex Trafficker’s can be anyone; men, women, persons of authority and trust and even members of the sex trafficking victims own friends and immediate family members.
Keeping in mind that Human sex Traffickers employ fraud and or coercion when grooming a Human Sex Trafficking victim, Traffickers look, seek out and target individuals who show signs of vulnerability, depression, lack of self-confidence, self-esteem or those coping with loss and in the case of minors, those who’s parents are going through a divorce or just strict parents.
Human sex Traffickers manipulate the victim into believing that they care about them and that they want the best for them and will even provide a victim with gifts, buy them clothes, jewelry and give them a cell phone to win them over all in an attempt to lure them in.
Operation Restoring Innocence (ORI) has been in operation since October of 2013 and in that time has been credited with over 100 safe rescues and recoveries, the apprehension and conviction of sex Traffickers, and their accomplices that includes those individuals (known as Johns) who have either engaged or attempted to engage in sex acts with children.
ORI has worked closely with the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, the Chicago Police Department, and other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies in conducting covert surveillances, interviews, sting operations and actual rescues of sex trafficking victims on the streets.
ORI has worked with the government, faith based, religious organizations, health care providers, private corporations, and the community to bring education and awareness about Human sex trafficking and how to identify it and report it to anonymous tip lines.