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HUMAN TRAFFICKING:

“The recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring or receipt of a person by such means as threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, or fraud or deception for the purpose of exploitation.”
– U.N. Trafficking Protocol

THE REALITIES OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING:

  • Human trafficking = modern day slavery
  • It is estimated that there is between 10 and 30 million human trafficking victims in the world today.
  • International Labor Organization
    • It is estimated that 14,500-17,500 foreign born victims are trafficked into the U.S. annually.
  • U.S. Department of State
    • Commerce in human being is the fastest growing criminal activity in the world today.
  • National Association of Attorneys General
    • The human trafficking global industry makes around $32 billion annually.
  • Washington State Attorney General

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    Sex trafficking in Spokane:

     

     
    May 22, 2012: A 21-year-old woman from Spokane Valley went to the Public Safety Building and said she’d been forced to work as a sex slave at meth houses and motels for the past year. She provided an address in which the suspects lived and held her captive. Investigators searched the property and seized a large amount of suspected evidence, including methamphetamine, guns, advertisements for escort services and a bottle of bleach. The woman told detectives she was forced to clean herself with bleach after each sex act.

     
    “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?”Isaiah 58:6