Country star Paul Brandt on Not In My City and the truth about human trafficking — it’s real
Human trafficking can be difficult to see at first, but once you know what to look for, you realize it’s a lot more common than you think.
At #NotInMyCity, we call this the “Survivor Lens.” Once you look through that lens, you’ll never see the world the same.Advertisement 4It can seem confusing at first, but dig in. Imagine that you’re learning about trafficking to benefit one of your children, or grandchildren, or someone you know. The average age of first being trafficked in Canada is between 13 and 14 years old, though evidence of even younger ages exist. The greatest risk factor to being trafficked is simply being a girl.
Many don’t even see themselves as victims because their trafficker has tricked them into believing that they are loved and cared for.One of the best definitions is from Durham Regional VSU Human Trafficking Crisis Intervention counsellor Karly Church, a Canadian survivor of domestic sex trafficking, who says: “There are certain elements that need to be present for human trafficking to exist. Those elements are force, fraud, coercion and facilitation by a third party or a group of people.
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