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Hi friends and colleagues
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I would like to speak to you today about the typical victim.
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Or is there a typical victim in child sexual abuse trafficking
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And what makes victims vulnerable?
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One of the things, all of us need to understand and appreciate, regardless of your jurisdiction
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whether you're looking at this in your community, in your state, your country, or internationally
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is that there are two main drivers of exploitation and trafficking.
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Number one, there is a demand for sex with children primarily by men
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and that there is a desire of these men to make money.
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Those two issues, along with a lot of the other factors that we're dealing with today
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are the two primary drivers that we cannot ever forget some of the basic facts about this issue
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is every country dealing with some aspect of exploitation and trafficking?
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You may be in a large city where there are the strands
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or the locks or the clubs or the locations where these activities occur.
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Or you may be in a surrounding rural area or suburb
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where these children and youth primarily come from.
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But all of us have this issue or the aspect of exploitation or traffic
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we're dealing with, as well as obviously all of us are dealing with it online.
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27% of all trafficking involves children
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and there is a premium on the younger the child is or if
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they're virgins.
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Two out of three of the trafficked child victims are girls.
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I'm going to use the term children, but when I use the term children, I mean children.
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I mean pre-teens, teens, and young adults as long as
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they're below your age of majority or in your various countries.
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And keep in mind that less than 10% of these situations
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of trafficking and exploitation involve some type of abduction.
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The majority of these pimps and traffickers are known to the child victim
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whether there be family members, friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, friends
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that are met in the various facilities and institutions.
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Many of these children find themselves living in.
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And we'll talk a little bit more about that in a minute.
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There are some difficulties in our efforts to combat trafficking around the world.
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Number one, it's global, and that is made even more so with the advent of the COVID dynamic.
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And now that everybody is connected with some type of social media
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and various aspects of being able to go online have made sexual trafficking
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and the ability for Predators to find victims much easier.
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Another part that makes these cases very difficult is the victims themselves.
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Many of them suffer from some type of mental illness or have mental health issues.
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Most of it is probably due to some type of trauma or previous diagnosis
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or a non-diagnosis in their homes, in their households
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before they even were brought into "the life" or to be traffic.
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But obviously having the experience of being sexually assaulted
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and exploited in and of itself can create mental health issues.
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Also, many of them come from a place of drugs and alcohol
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whether it's in their home or whether they have been doing drugs and alcohol themselves.
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And obviously, we know that a major part of the grooming process that traffickers use against these children
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is drugs and alcohol to facilitate a good time or to numb the experiences.
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Poor self-esteem is consistent across all aspects, whether it's children or even adults that are being trafficked.
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And the low self-esteem literally screams to these pimps and traffickers that facilitate
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their grooming of these victims into life.
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Many of these kids are having issues in school or have dropped out of school
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are truant or are not going to school
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because they have to work in their home or school is too far
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or because of some other issues, learning disabilities, or what have you.
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Many of these children are in one of the areas of very high risk for being exploited
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and traffic is LGBTQ youth because many of their families in our countries reject
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these children and they become throwaways or runaways in many of our communities,
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which makes them very attractive to traffickers and pimps.
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Another area that we know that traffickers and pimps go to
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I was talking to a colleague that works at a shelter who talked about how pimps sit right outside on the driveway
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or on the road that goes into what's supposed to be a fairly secret shelter.
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But, you know, those things can be kept secret for a very long.
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But they know that a lot of easily victimized children are going to be in shelters at group homes
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and foster care placements, as well as our youth detention facilities.
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And they also know to have other of their victims,children to solicit kids into these facilities
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Also, what are some of the other contributing factors to this issue?
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If I call it a sexualize household, if there are family members who use sex workers
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or if the household itself is highly sexualized with sex workers and what have you and
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they're not.
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Well, if that's just a part of how that family operates, that's a very, very high risk.
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Communities that are neighbors of very cash-rich cities or where there is some type of employment
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or work, where the workers are cash rich, whether it's in some type of agricultural situation or in the larger city itself.
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We know that many of our kids have juvenile records
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and those things for these kids make them less credible.
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They have a record and they have various problems.
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And some of them feel like they can't get beyond these problems
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as well as the issues that have with them, with their families.
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Many of these kids have a basic history of neglect
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some types of abuse include sexual abuse and physical abuse, as well as witnessing violence in their homes.
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But obviously, some of the highest-risk kids are living in some type of poverty
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And many of them, whether it's their family or the kids themselves are engaging in some aspects of trafficking for some type of survival.
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Again, some of these parents, who don't deserve to be called parents, make the decision to allow for or to traffic their kids to bring money into the household.
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These gang members and traffickers and pimps know this.
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Sometimes it's a situation when there's little or no supervision.
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I'm not going to say it's a single-parent household.
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I know many cases where there are multiple parents in the household as well as other adults.
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And there's just but there's still no supervision of the kids.
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And as we spoke about earlier, many of these kids are run away or thrown away or nobody cares about them.
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Life is significant and glorified by the media.
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We give rap music and we give these shows on television and just magazine articles
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and this hyper-sexualized world that we're living in where kids are saying this also
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and a part of their desire to grow up is to learn from adults the examples
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that are being set by their parents and society at large.
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Many of them are engaged in some relationship with boyfriends or girlfriends.
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And these individuals may be caught up in wanting to have this glorified lifestyle or what have you.
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And then, obviously, other family members
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a dynamic of this that most are very uncomfortable talking about
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is what we refer to as compliant youth or youth who engage in a direct part of their own victimization.
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Obviously, their youth, they're above their heads.
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They're being manipulated. They're being groomed.
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But some of these kids know to a degree what they're doing and what's going on.
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I remember reading and I'm a big fan of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and their work around the Behavioral Sciences Unit.
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It's been very informative and they identify the characteristics of an ideal victim.
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I think it's interesting the characteristics they identified
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because if you talk to parents and child adolescent development professionals
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I think they would come up with the same list at the very top of the list as a need for love and affection.
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And unfortunately, many youths of these youths did not get appropriate love
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and affection from responsible, loving, caring adults.
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And they go to other locations that get this many times.
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And I'm talking to parents, especially if this hyper-sexualized society
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that we had, that we live in, I tell "you have got to talk to your children about love"
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affection or relationships often and early, a lot earlier than you realize.
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Because if you're not doing it, where are they going to learn about it?
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And they're going to be seeking out that information.
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And it's forbidden that they learn about it from some pimp or trafficker that wants to take advantage of them.
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Kids are you know, these youth are easily led by or I referred to as misled
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by adults and authority figures.
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All kids are curious about sex and relationships.
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And all of us as teenagers, well, most of us as teenagers
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sought to be older or to emulate the older mentors in our lives.
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Well, if those mentors are not positive role models, what are these kids' lives?
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What are they in for?
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All of this reminds me how to engage as we think about multidisciplinary teams and be victim and child-centered.
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We have got to engage our local international law enforcement agencies, those vice units, those narcotics units.
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those patrol officers that work the night shift in those areas of the tracks
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or the strands or the struggles where there is trafficking.
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We need to engage our Internet crimes against children
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task force members, and our mental health professionals.
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Obviously, they may know of some of these children that are at risk.
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Talk to those shelters, cottages, orphanages staff
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as well as our juvenile and youth authorities both the officers, as well as the facilities of these kids.
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And lastly, but most importantly, we have got to be in our schools and talk to schools
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and counselors as well as the truancy officers.
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So to answer our question.
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Who's at risk?
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It's actually all youth.
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It doesn't matter if they're rich or poor or if they're in our big cities or in the rural areas
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or in our suburbs where it's believed that there is more money and opportunity.
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There is a desire by many men to have sex with children
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and there's money to be made in it as long as those two primary factors exist.
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We will continue to be on the front lines
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of identifying and intervening and protecting these children.
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We have to do this.
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I would encourage you to continue to do all of your work
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and remember doing that one child at a time.
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Until next time.
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This is Detective Mike.
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Thank you for all you do to protect children.
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