Sex Trafficking in or from Latin America
Outline
1. Victim and Survivor Data
2. Venues and Business Models
3. Geography of Cases
4. Trafficker Data and Types of Networks
Overview of Hotline Data
- Over 2000 cases
- December 2007 – December 2017
- Over 7800 potential victims described
- Over 2200 individual victims logged
- Over 2000 individual traffickers logged
- Nearly 4700 sites of exploitation identified
- Cases reported in 44 U.S. states
- Cases reported in 17 of 20 Latin American countries
- No cases reported in Uruguay, Paraguay or Chile
Data Quality
Callers
Response
- Over 2,300 referrals to critical service providers and government
- Nearly 900 cases reported to law enforcement (43%)
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