One in three high school students will be involved in an abusive relationship. Teenagers are the most frequent victims of both non-family abductions and stereotypical kidnappings. Foster youth are more at risk of abduction due to previous psychological trauma, lack of parental support, and inconsistent placements.
8. Teenagers are the most frequent victims
of both non-family abductions
and stereotypical kidnappings.
9. The FBI estimates that well over 100,000
children and young women
between the ages of 9 to 19
are trafficked in America today.
10. California receives the highest percentage
of human trafficking calls in the US.
(Tracked at 15.59% )
11. Foster youth are more at risk of abduction
due to previous psychological trauma, lack of
parental support, inconsistent placements, and
homelessness.
12. 70% of the native-born sex trafficking victims
in the United States
are foster children.
13. Resources
For immediate assistance or to talk to a trained
advocate:
Call the National Dating Abuse Helpline
24 hrs. a day 1-866-331-9474
National Domestic Violence Hotline
1-800-799-SAFE
National Sexual Assault Hotline
1-800-656-HOPE
www.teendvmonth.org
Empower Program, sponsored by Liz Claiborne Inc. and conducted by Knowledge Networks, Social Control, Verbal Abuse, and Violence Among Teenagers, (2000)
“Women’s Health,” June/July 2004, Family Violence Prevention Fund and Advocates for Youth, http://www.med.umich.edu/whp/newsletters/summer04/p03-dating.html, (Last visited 9/23/04).
ABC Primetime: Teen Girls' Stories of Sex Trafficking in U.S.
Foster Youth and Domestic Trafficking: An Unaddressed Relationship
FBI agent Gregory Christopher Velde, J. V. (2010, October 4). FBI agent leads task force targeting pimps in child prostitution. St Petersburg Times , p. http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/article1125800.ece.