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Child Sex
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CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING IN GEORGIA

  • Georgia ranks #5 in the Nation
  • Human Trafficking is a $290M business
  • 65% of men who buy sex with minors do so in Metro Atlanta
  • The average age of victims is 14yrs
  • 91% of sex trafficking victims were enrolled in school
  • 50% of victims are recruited by friends and family

ANONYMOUS VICTIM OF SEXUAL ABUSE

“I would sit and cry silently for hours every day for about three months. I was so hurt by what he’d done. I was only 15 when I met him, and he was 28. I thought I loved him so much, I would do anything for him at the time. I didn’t realize that he was manipulating me and controlling me. It all started when he wanted me to introduce him to my family—who I knew would never accept him. He started out just being pushy, but when I refused to take the relationship public, he kept getting more aggressive.

Eventually he started threatening me.

Early on he filmed some of our more private moments together on his phone. I could have never imagined then that the man I loved so much would later use them to blackmail me—that he would send these videos out to people. What I didn’t know then was that this was a form of sexual exploitation called sextortion.

We broke up and he emailed videos of us to my best friend. A year later, he sent videos using Facebook messenger to a guy that I had just started dating. I lived in fear of him for years after that. I had no idea what to do.”

 

Child Sex Trafficking - NorthMetro Atlanta

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