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HUMAN TRAFFICKERS TARGET TEENS ,
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ByMargie Menzel, The News Service of
Florida - August 8, 2013
A nationwide crackdown last week by
the FBI on child sex trafficking yielded 159 arrests and freed 105 children —
nearly all girls between 13 and 17 — but experts say it's the tip of the
iceberg.
"We're
barely scratching the surface," Tyson Elliott, who directs the state
Department of Juvenile Justice's efforts to curb human trafficking, said
Wednesday at Florida State University.
Elliott,
a former detective, was speaking to about 75 police officers, clergy and social
workers about human trafficking. He said that although the FBI's 10-year
Innocence Lost project has rescued 2,200 teens from forced prostitution, at
least 100,000 enter into it every year — by a conservative estimate.
The U.S. Department of Justice has estimated that nearly 450,000 children run away from home each year and one-third will be lured into prostitution within 48 hours of leaving home......
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