This document discusses the issue of human trafficking and the mission of Rescue Innocence to end it. It provides statistics on the scale of human trafficking globally and in the US, such as 27 million victims worldwide and 100,000 US children in sex trafficking each year. It details Rescue Innocence's goal to rescue child victims of sex trafficking through counseling and shows them hope in Christ. The organization seeks to break traffickers' hold and gain freedom for victims.

1. help stop human trafficking

2. Rescue the weak and the needy
deliver them from the hand of evil Psalm 82:4..................... ............
Mission Statement
"We seek to end human trafficking on a global scale by educating others
about this modern-day slavery, creating a community amongst
abolitionists, and offering a safe place for victims to receive unconditional
love, hope and Christ-centered counseling."

3. What is Human Trafficking?
When a person is acquired through
deception, kidnapping, sale or blackmail,
to be exploited for another person’s gain.
Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings
mainly for the purposes of sexual exploitation or forced
labor. Human slavery is alive and well in the world we
live in.

4. The Issue
27 Million
Victims of human trafficking worldwide
1 million
Children exploited by the sex trade
every year
32 billion
generated annually by human trafficking
Eighty Percent
of victims are women and girls

5. THe stats
• Only 10% of Police Departments are trained to recognize and combat human trafficking in
the United States.1
• The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) estimates that at least
100,000 children each year are caught up in the insidious world of child prostitution. 2
• JACKSON COUNTY, MO— Since 2000, Child Protective Services in Kansas City, MO
estimates that at least one victim of commercial sexual exploitation is identified each month
through substantiated sexual abuse and neglect allegations, totaling a minimum of 84
Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking victims that have been identified by a single agency in
Jackson County, MO alone. Ages ranged from 12 to 16 years of age. 3
• CHILLICOTHE, MO— In 2009, a Chillicothe man pleaded guilty in federal court to child sex
trafficking involving the sale of at least five minor victims for prostitution in Kansas City,
Missouri. (USDOJ) 4

6. THe stats
• There are more than 5,000 brothels disguised as massage parlour’s nationwide. A standard
day for a woman in a brothel disguised as a massage parlour is 10am to 2 or 3am, 7 days a
week . Estimated average number of men a woman must have sex with daily is 6-10. 5
• From 2006 to 2010 FBI’s Lost Innocence task force worked 100 sex trafficking cases in the
Denver area alone. They rescued 68 total people, 33 women, 33 girls, and 2 boys. 6
• From January 2012 to October 2012 FBI’s Lost Innocence task force already rescued 33
minors from sex trafficking in the Denver area alone. 7
• In the U.S. more human beings are being forced into slavery than the 17th-century slave
traders transported to pre-revolutionary America. 8

7. THe Mission
We continue to branch out through global partnerships, but are
narrowing our focus in the United States. Through a comprehensive
Christ-centered counseling program in our future safe houses we
look to help minors aged about 12-17 that are trapped in Human
Trafficking in the U.S.
Rescue Innocence is working to rescue victims of
Sex-Trafficking and show them that there is hope, healing,
and a future in Christ.
We seek to break the hold of traffickers and gain freedom for
its victims.

8. THe Call
The horrors of Human Trafficking are slowly being recognized
as a cruel reality in today’s world.
The issues are real, the victims are many, and help is needed.
Our journey is just beginning and we invite you to join the efforts
of Rescue Innocence and become a part of the solution.

9. References
1 - Steele, Dan, FBI’s Innocence Lost Task Force, Spoken at The Restoration Symposium, Denver Colorado, Septemer 2012 - (Back to Page)
2 - National Center For Missing and Exploited Children http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?
LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=4079 - (accessed January 17, 2013) (Back to Page)
3 - Wade, Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking Assessment Report — Independence, Missouri, pg. 37 - (Back to Page)
4 - USDOJ - http://www.justice.gov/usao/mow/news2010/jennings.sen.htm (accessed January 17, 2013)(Back to Page)
5 - Polaris Project http://www.polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/sex-trafficking-in-the-us/massage-parlors (accessed January 17, 2013) (Back to Page)
6 - Steele, Dan, FBI’s Innocence Lost Task Force, Spoken at The Restoration Symposium, Denver Colorado, Septemer 2012 (Back to Page)
7 - Steele, Dan, FBI’s Innocence Lost Task Force, Spoken at The Restoration Symposium, Denver Colorado, Septemer 2012 (Back to Page)
8 - Hogenboom, Melissa, A tipping point in the fight against slavery? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19831913 (accessed January 17, 2013)
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