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Florida Facts Regarding Human Trafficking

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In Miami-Dade approximately 40% of our total victims are minors

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60% of our total victims are adults (average age of adult being 18-23 years)

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In Miami-Dade, 96% of our
minor victims are females

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In Miami-Dade, 92% of our
adult victims are female

Merriam-Webster definition of human trafficking: Human Trafficking is the organized criminal activity in which human beings are treated as possessions to be controlled and exploited (as by being forced into prostitution or involuntary labor).
Florida Statute 787.06(2)(d): Human Trafficking is the transporting, soliciting, recruiting, harboring, providing, enticing, maintaining, or obtaining another person for the purpose of exploitation of that person. Read full Statute
Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 Definition: defines the “severe forms of human trafficking” as: The recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for:
- sex trafficking in which a commercial sex 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; or
- labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery. Read full statute

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