EXPLOITATION AND SEX TRAFFICKING

January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month. While people of any age can be trafficked, the truth is that children as young as 10 are being sold for sex on-line, as well as in-person by boy or girl friends, family members, friends or gangs. No child should be sold for sex!

IN 2020 alone over 440 missing or exploited children were rescued by the United States Marshals Service (USMS) in Georgia, Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, Louisiana and other states. Thank God for their rescue and safety. But sex trafficking should not happen in the US at all! No child should be put in such awful circumstances.

Parents, you need to know how to protect your kids from their being caught in trafficking. “Connect” (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: Parent CONNECT: Child Safety Virtual Discussion Series (missingkids.org)) is a web site maintained by the National Center for Missing and…