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Human trafficking is a multi-billion dollar industry where perpetrators profit from the control and exploitation of others. It’s modern slavery. It is estimated that there are more than 27.9 million victims of human trafficking worldwide. Anyone is at risk of being trapped in human trafficking through the means of force, fraud, or coercion.

Sex traffickers use violence, threats, lies, debt bondage, and other forms of coercion to compel adults and children to engage in commercial sex acts against their will. Under U.S. federal law, any minor under the age of 18 years induced into commercial sex is a victim of sex trafficking—regardless of whether or not the trafficker used force, fraud, or coercion.