HUMAN TRAFFICKING and Health Care - Stanford University

Trafficking & Teens in the U.S.
Adolescents are a vulnerable group at risk!
Most common form of trafficking in the U.S. is
underage prostitution
Youth under 18 y/o cannot legally consent to
prostitution Congress has included it as a form of
severe trafficking
In a representative sample of over 13,000 U.S.
adolescents, 3.5% admitted to having exchanged
sex for drugs or money
400,000 American youth who are being prostituted
or are at risk for being prostituted in the next year