for kids. every year an estimated 1.2 million children, most of them girs, are exploited by sex trafficking worldwide including here in the united states. they are sold and trade and coerced into sex world. child sex trafficking is underground work whose work is marginalized and invisible, and because there is are difficult to pin down. but if you look closely, the evidence is there, children are being bought and sold for sex by adults in all 50 states in cities big and small, and even a casual scan of news headlines will attest. this week, we found story after story with sex trafficking in the headlines and in everyone underaged girls forced to have sex with adult men for money. now n the united states, an adult having sex with a minor is a crime, period. a minor forced through rape,