HOW CAN YOU HELP?
“If everyone from hotel clerks to flight attendants to emergency room doctors learn how to spot the signs of human trafficking, we will rescue more victims and bring more traffickers to justice.”
If you are aware of sex trafficking indicators, and how to report what you see, we will have more men, women, boys and girls saved from the life and more traffickers in prison.
COMMON SIGNS OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ARE:
Unexplained source of new clothing, jewelry, etc.
Hotel room keys
Chronic ditching of school, unexplained absences
Chronic runaway/homelessness
Isolation from family and friends
Signs of branding, tattoos with male names
Lying about age/false identification
Inconsistencies in story
Lack of knowledge of a given community or whereabouts
Presence of an overly controlling and abusive “boyfriend”
Inability or fear to make eye contact
Paranoia, lack of trust
Signs of physical abuse or malnourishment
Untreated health/dental problems
Restricted/scripted communication
Self blame, feelings of shame and humiliation
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After learning how to spot a sex trafficking victim, what is there to do? For starters, we never recommend putting yourself (and potentially the victim) in danger. This means no physical or verbal contact with the people you are watching. We have two recommendations for what YOU can do if you notice a likely trafficking situation;
CALL/REPORT
Call the National Human Trafficking hotline number at: 1 (888) 373-7888 OR
Text/SMS: 233733 (Text "HELP" or "INFO")
Hours: 24 hours, 7 days a week
Languages: English, Spanish and 200 more languages
Website: humantraffickinghotline.org
Download the STOPTHETRAFFIK APP (click for link to download). We have fallen in love with this app as it allows you to safely report human trafficking with pictures, a video, and detailed information on what you are witnessing (location, vehicles, names, situation, etc.) See informative video below.