55 Little Known Facts About Human Trafficking

These statistics were gather about 4 years ago, so all any need to

know is just how greatly the numbers have increased – just do

your own research to realize just how many children and teens

are being taken on a regular basis.

There are an estimated 27 million adults and 13 million children

around the world who are victims of human trafficking.

Human trafficking not only involves sex and labor, but people

are also trafficked for organ harvesting.

Human traffickers often use a Sudanese phrase “use a slave to

catch slaves,” meaning traffickers send “broken-in girls” to recruit

younger girls into the sex trade. Sex traffickers often train girls

themselves, raping them and teaching them sex acts.

Eighty percent of North Koreans who escape into China are

women. Nine out of 10 of those women become victims of human

trafficking, often for sex. If the women complain, they are

deported back to North Korea, where they are thrown into gulags

or are executed.

An estimated 30,000 victims of sex trafficking die each year

from abuse, disease, torture, and neglect. Eighty percent of those

sold into sexual slavery are under 24, and some are as young as

six years old.

Ludwig “Tarzan” Fainberg, a convicted trafficker, said, “You can

buy a woman for $10,000 and make your money back in a week if

she is pretty and young. Then everything else is profit.”