NOT FOR REPRODUCTION. Child Sex Trafficking: What CASAs Need to Know

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1 Child Sex Trafficking: What CASAs Need to Know

2 From , approximately how many reports of suspected child trafficking cases were made CPS units in Maryland? A B. 108 C. 45 D. 163

3 TRAINING OBJECTIVES By the end of this training, participants will be able to: 1. Define human trafficking and child sex trafficking. 2. Identify 5 trafficking risk factors for youth in care. 3. Describe how sex trafficking impacts victims.

4 WHAT IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING? Human Trafficking is the act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud, or coercion Trafficking in Persons Report, US Department of State

5 Sex Trafficking Human Trafficking the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing or soliciting of a person for a commercial sex act in which the act is induced by force, fraud or coercion Labor Trafficking Child Sex Trafficking Sex Trafficking OR in which the person performing the act is under the age of 18 Commercial Sexual Exploitation Adult Sex Domestic Child Sex TraffickingMinor Sex Trafficking Trafficking

6 Victim is 17 or under Involves commercial sex act No movement required Does NOT require force, fraud or coercion Child sex trafficking refers to the trafficking of anyone under 18 and is a form of child abuse.

7 A3 HUMAN TRAFFICKING LAWS Trafficking Victims Protection Act (2000) Preventing Sex Trafficking & Strengthening Families Act (2014) Maryland Criminal Code and Family Law on Human Trafficking

8 Slide 7 A3 Consolidate with just titles Author, 10/7/2015

9 Reported Trafficking Cases, National Human Trafficking Resource Center Human Trafficking in Maryland 25,700 prostitution arrests of children were made in the U.S. between 1994 and No A 1999 reliable study national found that estimate 9.5% exists of of shelter the prevalence youth and of 27.5% commercial of street sexual youth exploitation age 12-2 in and 10 major sex trafficking U.S. of cities minors had in engaged the United in survival States. sex. - Greene et -al., Institute 1999of Medicine, FBI Arrest Statistics

10 Where does trafficking happen? Street ( track or blade ) Online Hotels/motels Strip Clubs Truck Stops Residential Brothels Fake Massage Businesses and Spas

11 WHY MARYLAND? o Centrally located: I-95 corridor, I-270, I-70 o International Airports o Truck stops o Multiple vulnerable populations: Foster youth, unaccompanied minors, domestic servants, agricultural workers. o Significant transnational gang presence Source: Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force website A1

12 Slide 10 A1 double check this still lines up with what's on their slide Author, 12/9/2015

13 Child Sex Child Sex Trafficking Reports to CPS by Year County 0 16 July 2013 March County where trafficked occurred County of Victim's Home Residence Baltimore Baltimore PG Co. Washingt Mont. Co. Anne Harford Co. Calvert Co. Frederick Queen Carroll Co. Howard Co. Charles Co. Kent Co. Talbot Co. Cecil Co. Wicomico 2013 (July- Dec) (Jan- March) Caroline Co. Out of State Garrett Co.

14 Types of Sex Trafficking Pimp/ Trafficker Controlled Gang Controlled Familial Trafficking Non Pimp Controlled

15 Trafficking or Not?

16 RECRUITMENT Grooming: honeymoon period and developing trust Trafficker determines tangible and intangible needs Fulfill needs and isolates victim (cuts off phone/internet access, removing resources) Turns out victim using coercion, guilt, shame, threats, force and/ or manipulation

17 Beatings Sexual assault Confinement Deny food, water, medical care Forces sex w/ multiple people daily Forced drug use Force Power & Control Fraud Coercion I ll get you a great waitressing job Trafficker may lie about his/her age Fake id or visas You ll only have to do this for one night Debt that can never be paid off Threatening violence ( I will kill your family ) Blackmail ( I ll show everyone those pictures ) Creating dependence ( I m the only one who ll ever love you ) Emotional abuse ( you re just a ho ) Humiliation & name calling Blames victim for staying

18 Kelly s Story

19 Neglect RISK FACTORS Substance Abuse Abuse Sexual Abuse Mental Illness Poverty Adolescence No economic or educational opportunities Homelessness Past trauma Cognitive Disabilities Marginalized communities Gang involvement Running Away

20 Mental Illness Abuse Homeles sness Poverty Neglect No economic /educatio nopportuni ties Sexual Abuse Neglect No economic /educatio nopportuni ties Poverty Abuse Homeles sness Sexual Abuse No economic /educatio nopportuni ties Sexual Abuse Margina lization Abuse Homeles sness Gangs No economic /educatio nopportuni ties Poverty Margina lization Abuse Homeles sness Sexual Abuse Foster Runaway/Homeless LGBTQ Undocumented Youth Youth Youth Youth

21 RED FLAGS

22 Under 18 and engaged in commercial sex acts SIGNS OF TRAFFICKING Chronic runaways, gone for extended periods (indicates staying in hotels, attending hotel parties, or traveling long distances) Uses prostitution terminology, significant tattoos (initials of boyfriend, brands), nickname is prostitution related Arrested for prostitution or related masking charges Social media posts that are sexually provocative, show pictures of cash, or show youth staying in hotel Described as promiscuous, no. of sexual partners not consistent with age or development

23 SIGNS OF TRAFFICKING Romantic partner is significantly older, seems overly interested or controlling Is fearful, anxious, depressed, submissive, tense, or nervous/paranoid, avoids eye contact, especially regarding law enforcement Signs of physical/sexual abuse, restraint, confinement, torture, malnourished Not allowed to speak for themselves (3 rd party insists on being present) Signs of gang involvement Has access to money or material items that does not fit their situation Not in control of own money or identification documents Claims of just visiting, inability to say where he/she is staying

24 IMPACT Physical health problems Changed relationships with associated with beatings and others (difficult to trust others) rapes Self-destructive behaviors Reproductive health problems (including suicide attempts) Malnutrition Profound shame and guilt Mental health problems, Changed perception of the including PTSD and somatic perpetrator (trauma bonds, complaints resulting from trauma Stockholm Syndrome) (headaches, chronic pain) Despair and hopelessness Alcohol and drug use Extreme anxiety and fear Source: Heather J. Clawson, Ph.D. and Lisa Goldblatt Grace, LICSW, Finding a Path to Recovery: Residential Facilities for Minor Victims of Domestic Sex Trafficking, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Understanding and Addressing Violence Against Women: Human Trafficking, World Health Organization (2012).

25 THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING! Amelia Rubenstein, LCSW-C Clinical Research Specialist Child Sex Trafficking Victims Initiative University of Maryland School of Social Work Dr. Nadine Finigan-Carr, PhD Principal Investigator Child Sex Trafficking Victims Initiative University of Maryland School of Social Work