Human Traficking

Question 1

True or false… human trafficking must involve travel, transportation, or movement across state or national borders

Answer 1

False

Question 2

True or false.. sex trafficking and human trafficking is the same thing

Answer 2

False.

Question 3

True or false… a victim of human trafficking can be willing

Answer 3

True. They do not need to be forced or coerced. There doesn’t have to be abduction, physical restraint, bondage or torture

Question 4

True or false… victims never want to be in the life but have no choice

Answer 4

False.

Question 5

Define exploitation.

Answer 5

The act of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their “work”

Question 6

Define commercial sex act

Answer 6

Any sex act on account of which anything of value is given to or received by any person

Question 7

Define commercial sexual exploitation of children

Answer 7

When individuals buy, trade, or sell sexually acts with a child under 18 (includes child porn, stripping, sex)

Question 8

Define human trafficking

Answer 8

The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provisioning, or obtaining of a person for the purposes of labor or sexual exploitation (involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery; or commercial sex act)

Question 9

Define human smuggling

Answer 9

The facilitation, transportation, attempted transportation or illegal entry of a person across an international border, in violation of one or more countries’ laws, either clandestinely or through deception, such as the use of fraudulent documents

Question 10

What is sex trafficking?

Answer 10

Human trafficking induced by force, fraud, or coercion to do a commercial sex

*proof of force, fraud, coercion is not required for victims under 18!

Question 11

Define labor trafficking

Answer 11

Human trafficking induced by force, fraud, or coercion for the purposes of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery

Question 12

Define force

Answer 12

Power

Violence

Constraint against a person

Question 13

Define fraud

Answer 13

Act of deception with criminal intent

Question 14

Define coercion

Answer 14

Threats of serious harm against any person; including schemes intended to threaten indirect harm

Question 15

True or false… organ harvesting is a part of human trafficking

Answer 15

True

Question 16

How many slaves are there worldwide?

Answer 16

3 per 1000 people (20.9 million)

Question 17

How many confirmed U.S trafficking cases were reported in 2016 to the national human trafficking hotline? What percent of these were sex trafficking? What percent were labor trafficking?

Answer 17

7,572

Sex trafficking: 73% (40%, 90% female. 45% US citizens)

Labor trafficking: 16% children. 57% female. 68% foreign nationals or legalized immigrants

Question 18

How many victims of sex trafficking are found each year worldwide?

Answer 18

4.5 million

Question 19

Where does most trafficking take place in the US?

Answer 19

Large urban areas

Question 20

What is the age at which most people enter sex trafficking? What about labor trafficking?

Answer 20

Sex trafficking: 49% enter between ages 12-17

Labor trafficking: 36% enter between ages 12-17

Question 21

What is the average age of people who enter into labor trafficking and sex trafficking?

Answer 21

Sex trafficking: 18

Labor trafficking: 23

Question 22

How many human trafficking victims were found in utah from 07-16?

Answer 22

189

There were 630 calls to the hotline

Question 23

What is DMST?

Answer 23

Domestic minor sex trafficking

Exploitative crimes of sexual nature committed against minors within the US

Question 24

What are some examples of exploitative crimes in DMST?

Answer 24

Trafficking a minor for sexual exploitation (child porn, stripping/dancing, sexual acts)

Exploiting a minor through survival sex

Exploiting a minor through “prostitution”

Question 25

What are the top personal risk factors for human trafficking?

Answer 25

``` Poverty Homelessness Substance use Sexual abuse/assault Child abuse/neglect Runaway/throwaway Juvenile justice system or foster care involve the LGBTQIQ Domestic violence Mental health problems or concerns Displaced persons (refugees) ```

Question 26

Before being trafficked, victims are more likely to have a history of...

Answer 26

Trauma, physical and/or sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, abandonment, divorce, IPC, substance abuse

Question 27

What are the community factors involved with human trafficking?

Answer 27

High homeless and runaway/throwaway youth populations Presence of adult prostitution Large population of unattached and/or transient males (truck stops, casinos) Gangs Organized crime International borders, smuggling routes

Question 28

Who are the traffickers?

Answer 28

Romantic situation (32%) Benefactors (10%) (money, shelter, food) Job offer (10%) (modeling/acting) Familial/friend (10%) Combination (31%)

Question 29

What are the primary venues of CSEC?

Answer 29

Hotel/motel based Street based Brothel Online classifieds are a common avenue

Question 30

___ years is the average lifespan of a victim of human trafficking

Answer 30

7 years!

Question 31

The average number of sexual partners per day for a victim of sex trafficking is ___

Answer 31

8-10 per day!

Question 32

What is the number 1 and number 2 top causes of death for victims of sex trafficking?

Answer 32

Murder HIV complications

Question 33

___% of victims had contact with a healthcare provider while they were being trafficked. ___% went alone to get birth control.

Answer 33

87.8% 65%

Question 34

What is the number 1, 2, and 3 top health care providers that victims went to while being trafficked?

Answer 34

ER Primary care Dentist

Question 35

What are some potential signs of DMST?

Answer 35

No ID Living with employer or "friends" Cannot remember address Inconsistencies in story Accompanying adult does not let pt speak Hypervigilance/paranoia General poor health/malnourishment Significant cash, hotel room keys, condoms on person

Question 36

What are some additional signs of DMST?

Answer 36

Stated age is older than appearance Multiple arrests for "prostitution" Multiple STIs, sexual partners Evidence of sexual trauma Tattoos/branding/cutting/burning Runaway, throwaway youth Homeless youth School truancy, multiple absences

Question 37

How can you communicate with victims of human trafficking effectively?

Answer 37

Talk with pt alone Enlist a trusted interpreter (NOT family member or from same community) Important to limit history gathering to our specific role

Question 38

Who do you involve if you identify or suspect a victim?

Answer 38

DCFS and 911 Safe & healthy families National human trafficking hotline UTIP hotline

Question 39

Should you ask A: what is wrong with you? B: what has happened to you?

Answer 39

B