It is unimaginable how an individual can be so cold hearted against heir own kind. These people exploit, sell, abuse and even slave them involuntary drastically damaging them physically and emotionally. The Federal of Bureau Investigation believes accordingly “It’s sad but true: here in this country, people are being bought, sold, and smuggled like modern-day slaves” (FBI, 2010). According to recent Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) statistics, the victims of human trafficking maintain a life of misery, both emotionally and physically. They often suffer from starvation, physical abuse and sexual exploitation. These crimes against humanity often come in the form of forced prostitution and/or forced labor with little pay or none at all (FBI, 2015). We lose a generation of human beings to this criminal enterprise we fight everyday even though many Organizations (governmental, non-governmental and other private entities) have tried to cut down the trafficking …show more content…
Push and pull factors contribute to this type of criminal vice, most common are unemployment, regional inequality, financial issues, corruption, social favoritism, deprivation of the poor and demand of sex from pedophiles (United Nations on drugs and Crime, Human Trafficking). More than sixty percent of all victims are women and fifty percent of them are under the age of 18. A high factor in Human trafficking is women being women sold or bought for sex especially minors in the U.S. “Experts contend there are a minimum of 100,000 U.S. minors, those under the age of 18 … trafficked for commercial sex at the present time with up to 325,000 more at risk for becoming such victims” (Kotrla, 2011). These victims average age of youth at approximately 13 years of age are being lured into such exploitive situations, however victims have been identified as young as five years of age. The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that females represent the largest share of forced labor victims with 11.4 million trafficked victims (55%) compared to 9.5 million (45%) men (Antislavery