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Today s presenter Lynnette Grey Bull Not Our Native Children Chair, Governor s Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs 2015 UA Board of Regents
Human Trafficking in Arizona Lynnette Grey Bull
Assaults on Women & Children Are Assaults on Our Future! LYNNETTE GREY BULL
WHAT IS HUMAN TRAFFICKING?
Sex Trafficking The Federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) defines the crime of trafficking as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act where such an act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age. It is important to understand from the federal definition is that anyone under the age of 18 who is induced to perform a commercial sex act is automatically a trafficking victim.
Victims are typically U.S. Who are the victims? citizens, including adults, girls, boys, and transgender youth. (NHTRC)
Only 1-2% of human trafficking Who are the victims? victims are ever identified. (National Human Trafficking Resource Center)
The average age of entry for youth Who are the victims? into sex trafficking in Arizona is 14. (ASU Sex Trafficking and Intervention Research (STIR))
Who are the victims? In 2014, an estimated 1 out of 6 endangered runaways reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children were likely child sex trafficking victims. (National Center for missing and Exploited Children)
In Arizona, 1 in 4 Who are the victims? homeless young adults have experienced sex trafficking. (ASU YES Survey, 2014)
Sex Trafficking How it Appears In our Communities. is an underworld in our Arizona Communities.
Sex Trafficking In Our Arizona Communities Exists by: Street Prostitution.
Exploited Ads Sex Trafficking In Our Arizona Communities Exists by: Online: - Backpage.com. - Craig's List. - Social media.
Tucson online ads from April 24th - 26th, 2016.
Sex Trafficking In Our Arizona Communities Exists by: Family members selling their own children and or family member in exchange for money, drugs, and alcohol.
Sex Trafficking In Our Arizona Communities Exists by:
Local Massage- Parlors are Selling sex right In our Communities.
Sex Trafficking In Our Arizona Communities Exists by: Purchased online web shows - video camera exploitation.
Sex Trafficking In Our Arizona Communities Exists by: Tribal Casinos
Sex Trafficking In Our Arizona Communities Exists by: Recruitments by Pimps - Sex Traffickers
Sex Traffickers/Pimp s are: - Boyfriends/Rome o Pimps who manipulate their victims & convince them out of love and care.
Sex Traffickers/Pimp s are: - Gorilla pimping: a sex trafficker who utilizes force, kidnapping, physical assaults and threatening manipulation tactics to keep their victims enslaved.
Sex Traffickers/Pimp s are: Gang related prostitution.
Sex Traffickers/Pimp s are: A parent or family member who pimps their child for drugs or money.
Sex Traffickers/Pimp s are: Runaways or throwaways, living on the street and are forced to exchange sex for survival.
There's a huge market for sex with minors.
Prevention and Awareness
- Psychological Manipulation. - Sexual Assaults. Prevention and Awareness. Other Critical Topics to Educate on Exploitation and Sex Trafficking. - Trauma Bond. - Recovering from Trauma. - Victims who do not see themselves as victims. - Addiction to drugs or alcohol as a coping mechanism. - Hyper sexualality. - Recovering from, The Life.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
LYNNETTE GREY BULL LYNNETTEGREYBULL@gmail.com 480-465-3835 THANK YOU FOR THE
Thank you Questions?
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