The business community has a significant role to play in advancing progress towards ending human trafficking, including all forms of forced labor and sex trafficking, which are the 21st century’s manifestation of slavery. Learn to spot it, report it and stop it. Especially if you travel you can learn to spot victims in airports, train stations and hotels.

1. HUMAN TRAFFICKING

2. agenda
What is it?
Statistics & Recruitment
What to look for
Resources

3. What is it?

4. Sex/Human Trafficking within the U.S. is
legally defined as commercial sex acts
induced by force, fraud, or coercion or
commercial sex acts in which the
individual induced to perform commercial
sex has not attained 18 years of age.
Minors as young as 12 years old are
recruited into prostitution in the United
States.
(source: www. Polarisproject.org)

5. Statistics &
Recruitment

6. STATISTICS
 What countries come to mind where sex trafficking is
happening?
• 85% of confirmed sex trafficking victims are U.S. Citizens-
mostly runaways (www.covenanthouse.org)
• 48% said they did because they did not have a place to
stay (Covenant House/Fordham University)
• Fastest growing crime (FBI Reports)
• Social Media means for recruitment – Not just Facebook
and Twitter
• 80% of victims are women
• $32 billion industry (United Nations)

7. SAN DIEGO STATS (PLNU STUDY)
• $810 million a year – 2nd largest to drugs
• 85% gang affiliated- 110 gangs involved
• Estimated between 8,000-11,000 victims a year
• Schools are a target for recruiting
• Average age 14 ½
• 30-40 men a day
• Goal of $500 to $1,000 a day
How big do you think it is?

8. Currently there are 20
million sex/human
slaves in the world
today!
(United Nations report)

9. RECRUITMENT
• “Boyfriend” asks his girl “just this one time”...
• Social Media
• Girl recruiters
• Material enticements
• Involvement with drugs, payment for drugs
• Fraudulent job offers
• Parents offering their kids to friends/associates
for money
• Family members (generational or cultural ties)
• Gang members “swooping” in on newcomers to
school

10. RECRUITMENT-HOW
• Bottom Girls-what are they?
• Vulnerability
• Parties
• Extortion/Blackmail
• Mall: “You have beautiful eyes”

11. HOT SPOTS FOR RECRUITMENT
• Trolley, train stations and bus stops
• House parties
• Neighborhood parks near schools
• Alternative high schools
• Social media
• Tattoo parlors
• Churches
• Malls

12. The industry is a
$32 billion a year
Industry worldwide
and has
20 million sex
slaves
Endicia Confidential

13. And there are new apps everyday!
The FBI states there are over 750,000 predators on line at any time

14. WHO ARE YOUR KIDS SPEAKING WITH?
Your kids think they are speaking with this

15. BUT!
Your kids could actually be speaking with these individuals

16. What to look for

17. M.O. OF TRAFFICKERS
• You get further with honey than vinegar
• Pose as adoring suitors
• Victims stay in the relationship out of love for their
abuser
• Masquerade as consensual relationships
• Paraded around right out in the open, we fail to see the
signs
• Frequently used strategy is seduction forming a bond
leading to selling their bodies to please their boyfriend

18. TYPICAL CHILD/TEEN PROSTITUTE
• Traumatic childhood ( not always, there are
always exceptions)
• Abused physically, emotionally, and/or sexually
• So atrocious they look for something better
• Usually ending in something much worse
• They become throw-away youth
• Foster kids, homeless kids, runaway kids and
pregnant teens
• Good kids making bad decisions

19. HOW TO RECOGNIZE THE SIGNS
• Is the person accompanied by someone who seems controlling
or abusive?
• Do they have to ask permission to eat, sleep or go to the
bathroom?
• Is the person rarely allowed in public? Can they go out in public
alone?
• Do they have more than one cell phone?
• Can you detect physical or psychological abuse?
• Is someone else collecting their pay or holding their money for
"safe keeping

20. COMMON WORK AND LIVING
CONDITIONS
• Is not free to leave or come and
go as he/she wishes
• Is in the commercial sex industry
and has a pimp / manager
• Is unpaid, paid very little, or paid
only through tips

21. COMMON WORK AND LIVING
CONDITIONS
• Works excessively long and/or
unusual hours
• Is not allowed breaks or suffers under
unusual restrictions at work
• Owes a large debt and is unable to
pay it off

22. COMMON WORK AND LIVING
CONDITIONS
• Was recruited through false promises
concerning the nature and conditions of
his/her work
• High security measures exist in the work
and/or living locations (e.g. opaque windows,
boarded up windows, bars on windows,
barbed wire, security cameras, etc.)
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23. POOR MENTAL HEALTH OR
ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
• Is fearful, anxious, depressed, submissive,
tense, or nervous/paranoid
• Exhibits unusually fearful or anxious
behavior after bringing up law enforcement
• Avoids eye contact

24. POOR PHYSICAL HEALTH
• Lacks medical care and/or is denied
medical services by employer
• Appears malnourished or shows signs of
repeated exposure to harmful chemicals
• Shows signs of physical and/or sexual
abuse, physical restraint, confinement, or
torture

25. LACK OF CONTROL
• Has few or no personal possessions
• Is not in control of his/her own money, no
financial records, or bank account
• Is not in control of his/her own identification
documents (ID or passport)
• Is not allowed or able to speak for
themselves (a third party may insist on
being present and/or translating)

26. OTHER SIGNS
• Claims of just visiting and inability to clarify
where he/she is staying/address
• Lack of knowledge of whereabouts and/or
of what city he/she is in
• Loss of sense of time
• Has numerous inconsistencies in his/her
story

27. DON’T TALK WITH
STRANGERS!
• Omegle tagline: Talk to Strangers: You
just pick someone at random and start a
conversation.
• Starts innocently: Send me a photo
• Predators have 24/7 access to your kids
in your home
Who remembers this?

28. Omegle (oh·meg·ull) is a great way to meet new
friends. When you use Omegle, we pick someone
else at random and let you talk one-on-one. To help
you stay safe, chats are anonymous unless you tell
someone who you are (not suggested!), and you
can stop a chat at any time. Predators have been
known to use Omegle, so please be careful.
If you prefer, you can add your interests, and
Omegle will look for someone who's into some of
the same things as you instead of someone
completely random.

29. Resources

30. RESOURCES
• National Trafficking Emergency Hotline HOTLINE:
(888) 3737-888
• National Runaway Safeline HOTLINE:
1 800 786-2929 (1 800 RUNAWAY)
• MillionKids www.millionkids.org
• Documentaries:
http://www.abolishhumantrafficking.com/documentaries/
• Call 911 or local police department if you
suspect something

31. Endicia Confidential

32. • Prostitution is not what it used to be. It is run by
gangs mostly and can now be used as extortion
and black mail against the john so they don’t tell
those they work with, or family that they have
been with a prostitute.
• So what may initially cost $40.00 now may cost
you thousands.
• That is something to think about!

33. QUESTIONS?

34. Thanks
Les Ford
lesford@cox.net