70 Percent Of Child Sex Trafficking Victims Are Sold Online: Study [HuffingtonPost.com]

Samantha Sangenito 7/29/1412:00 PM

In 2014, buying a child for sex online can be just as easy as selling your old couch or posting an updated resume.

Astonishing statistics dug up by Thorn, an agency that studies technology's role in sex trafficking, found that sites like Craigslist are often used as tools for conducting business within the industry. Incredibly, 70 percent of child sex trafficking survivors surveyed by Thorn were at some point sold online.

"People are posted and sold online multiple times a day," Asia, a survivor of sex trafficking, told Thorn. "As far as the ad that was posted up [for me]… just [like] you can go find a car, there was a picture, and a description, and a price."

[For more of this story, written by Robbie Couch, go to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/25/sex-trafficking-in-the-us_n_5621481.html]

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