Images from Facebook and Snope.com
We've all shared the Facebook memes and posts about some plot to kidnap women and how they need to be aware of this and take X, Y and Z steps to be safe. That's just being thoughtful, right? But people who work with victim-survivors say we're perpetuating the idea that the only way you can be trafficked is if a stranger kidnaps you, or that only adult women are trafficked.
And when we do that, we're ignoring the people -
young people: boys and girls 12-14 years old - who ARE being trafficked in our community.