Human Trafficking 101
Hello. If you decide to read this open letter, you will learn about a crime that is growing exponentially around the world and in our country. There is not one city or suburb that is immune to it. It is called, human trafficking or modern day slavery.

Human trafficking is when a person is manipulated, by force, fraud, or coercion, and trafficked across state lines for labor and held in a condition of fear, unable to leave. The reason why human trafficking is able to go undetected in so many ways is because citizens are not looking for it; secondly, many of us don’t know what to look for even if we tried.
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Human Trafficking
Hispanic Magazine Article
A $10 billion per year industry, the trading of people as commodities has long been the misfortune of developing countries. But with the number of trafficked into the United States in the tens of thousands per year, are we doing enough?
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Oakland pimps prey on youth
By Kamika Dunlap and Barbara Grady
STAFF WRITERS
Article Launched: 04/21/2008 05:55:18 AM PDT
OAKLAND — When an 11- and 12-year-old girl disappeared last month, and police suspected they ended up prostituting themselves on the streets, the entire community took notice.
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FBI arrests hundreds in child sex crackdown
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
FBI: 300 prostitution workers arrested; 21 juveniles rescued
Raids conducted in 16 cities nationwide over the past five days
Arrests part of agency's five-year-old "Innocence Lost" initiative
Study: 300,000 kids in U.S. are at risk of being sexually exploited
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Teen recounts horror of sex slavery
Many young victims of human traffickers treated as criminals themselves
By Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 8:52 a.m. PT, Thurs., Oct. 9, 2008
For someone who’s only 18, Shauna Newell is remarkably composed as she describes being kidnapped, drugged, gang-raped and savagely beaten.
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