SEX TRAFFICKING
Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, recruiting, controlling, and using people for their bodies and for their labor.
Sex trafficking involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of commercial sex act. Traffickers use force, fraud, and/or coercion to lure their victims and force them into commercial sexual exploitation. The trauma caused by the traffickers can be so great that many may not identify themselves as victims or ask for help, even in highly public settings.
- At any given moment, there are approximately 79,000 minor and young adult victims of sex trafficking in the state of Texas.
- Less than 1% of survivors are receiving long-term care in Texas.
- Human trafficking does not require transportation across borders; a person can be a victim within their own home.
- A victim can be trafficked by close friends, family members, or significant others.
- The youngest reported case of sex trafficking in Lubbock was only 8 years old.
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Less than 1% of minor victims are receiving long-term therapeutic care in homes across Texas.
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Approximately 79,000 minors and youth are victims of sex trafficking in Texas.
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Since 2013, over 200 cases of sex trafficking have been reported in Lubbock, Texas.
- About 40% of the reported human trafficking cases studied in the United States involved the sexual exploitation of a child. These were domestic victims−American children trafficked on American soil.
- Around 20-25% of the reported cases of sex trafficking in Lubbock are minors.
- Since 2013, over 12,000 calls were made to the National Human Trafficking Hotline from Texas.
- As of August 31, 2014, 98 individuals were incarcerated in Texas state prisons for convictions of either trafficking of persons or compelling prostitution.
- Over 50 cases were filed in Lubbock County for Trafficking of Persons and Compelling Prostitution in the fiscal year 2016.
The average age of a trafficking victim is 12 years old.
24% of the 55 sex trafficking victims served by Lubbock’s Voice of Hope in 2016 were minors.
Over 40% of human trafficking cases involve the sexual exploitation of a child.
Approximately 79,000 minors and youth are victims of sex trafficking in Texas.
OneVoiceHome exists to change these numbers! We are designed to be a faith-based, state-licensed, therapeutic home for domestic minor sex trafficking victims. This home is part of a collaborative effort in the West Texas region seeking to rescue, rehabilitate, restore, and develop resiliency in victims. OneVoiceHome desires to take the lead in providing long-term, holistic services to child victims in our region, helping them to heal, and experience the opportunity for beginning of a new story.
OneVoiceHome exists to change these numbers! We are designed to be a faith-based, state-licensed, therapeutic home for domestic minor sex trafficking victims. This home is part of a collaborative effort in the West Texas region seeking to rescue, rehabilitate, restore, and develop resiliency in victims. OneVoiceHome desires to take the lead in providing long-term, holistic services to child victims in our region, helping them to heal, and experience the opportunity for beginning of a new story.
RESOURCES
OneVoiceHome offers resources to help you learn more about the current issues that exist within Human Trafficking in West Texas and in the United States.
- downloadable guides
- data
- facts
- tips
- and more
Human trafficking is the exclamation point to modern day injustice.
ARE YOU BEING TRAFFICKED OR KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS? CALL THE HELP HOTLINE NOW!
1-888-373-7888
ARE YOU A VICTIM OR KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS? CALL THE HELP HOTLINE NOW!
1-888-373-7888
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