Confronting Human Trafficking in Central Florida

Written by: Tom Gillan in Freedom Blog (Human Trafficking) on September 18, 2012
Did you know that Florida has the third highest number of Human Trafficking cases in the United States? With almost 40,000 homeless or runaway youth on Florida’s streets at any given time, the Central Florida area draws predators from around the world. When it comes to human trafficking, the numbers are too big to fully comprehend. When you look at them—2 to 4 million persons trafficked annually around the world, 20,000 persons trafficked in the State of Florida each year, 2.8 million homeless children walking the streets of America, 39,000 children reported missing in Florida last year—you begin to lose sight that each and every number is a human being.
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