Experts: pandemic has likely led to an increase in sex trafficking of children
Experts say because kids were not physically in school most of the year, the increased time spent online likely led to more targets for sex traffickers Share Updated: 10:39 PM CDT May 18, 2021
Experts: pandemic has likely led to an increase in sex trafficking of children
Experts say because kids were not physically in school most of the year, the increased time spent online likely led to more targets for sex traffickers Share Updated: 10:39 PM CDT May 18, 2021
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Show Transcript LIKELY LED TO AN INCREASE IN SEX TRAFFICKING CASES OF CHILDREN. CAROLI:NE THE WHOLE POINT OF KEEPING KIDS HOME DURING THE PANDEMIC WAS TO PROTECT THEM. BUT WHAT IT LED TO WAS A DOWNWARD SPIRAL FOR VULNERABLE MINORS OINNLE. A LOT OF OUR VICTIMS MEET THEIR TRAFFICKER THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA. ABOUT HALF OF MY VICTIMS ARE JUVENILES, AND I HAVE HAD HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICITMS AS YOUNG AS
Human Trafficking in Milwaukee Part II
The difficult reality of healing personal trauma and advocating for victims
Continued from a story in our November issue
âI was driving down the street and I saw a woman walking with no shoes. I approached her, using the shoes as a hook to engage conversation: âDo you need anything? We have shoes, we have food, we have condomsâ¦â We got her name, and this was the third time that we had seen her in different places in the vicinity,â says Dana World-Patterson, founder of Foundations for Freedom and chairperson of the Human Trafficking Task Force of Greater Milwaukee.