Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking - Florida Council Against Sexual ...

Recruitment• Pimps manipulate their victims beginning with an initialperiod of false love and feigned affection. This initial periodis critical to attaining long-term mind-control.• This period often includes:• Warmth, gifts, compliments, and sexual and physical intimacy• Elaborate promises of a better life, fast money, and future luxuries• Purposeful and pre-meditated targeting of vulnerability (e.g., runaways,throwaways)• Purposeful targeting of minors due to naiveté, virginity, and youthfulappearance