Human Trafficking

Have you heard of Human Trafficking? What is it? Human trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery. Victims of human trafficking are subjected to force, fraud, or coercion, for the purpose of sexual exploitation or forced labor Victims are young children, teenagers, men and woman.

Approximately 1.2 million children are trafficked each year around the world. Between 50% and 60% of the children who are trafficked into sexual slavery are under the age of 16. Statistics also demonstrate that between 600,000 to 800,000 persons are victims of human trafficking across international borders, and million others fall victim within their own territory. In the United States around 14,500 to 17,500 are trafficked within the borders.


This saddens me a great deal. The past few months our church and hosted meetings about this issue. This has been on my heart for a long time. Did you know that it is happening here in the US? It could be happening just around you. It saddens my heart that children at the age of 2 are sold it to sex trafficking. You might be saying, this wouldn't happen to my me. Well I heard a recent story were a 15 year old girl ran outside to say goodbye to her friend who was leaving town, guess what? Someone jumped out of the trunk and kidnapped her. Her friend sold her into sex trafficking. This scares me and we need to be more aware of what is going on around us. My prayer right now is how can I get more involved in this. There are so many ways. If you are interested check out my websites that are connected to this blog.

The reason I am writing this is because I want you to know and to be aware of it happening here in Washington and all over the US. I am educating myself on this subject more. I encourage you to do the same. Pray for these children who are being sold into slavery.