(Sponsored) – 80% of child sex crimes in the United States start on social media. According to the latest data from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), 32 million reports of online child enticement are reported annually in the United States.
Exodus Road is a global nonprofit organization based in Colorado Springs that actively disrupts human trafficking. Thanks to Exodus Road, police were able to successfully remove approximately 2,500 human trafficking survivors from exploitation and arrest over 1,250 perpetrators.
For Exodus Road, digital exploitation is an important conversation. Because they have seen an increase in online exploitation in human trafficking. His 61% of cases in 2023 involved evidence collected from social media platforms.
Exodus Road created the senator-backed project “Influenced: Ending Exploitation in our Digital World.” john hickenlooper. Exodus Road will bring this prevention education curriculum to at-risk communities around Colorado in 2024-2025. This includes live events, online educational courses, online resources, blog posts, newsletters, and digital campaigns. For more information, visit influenced.org.
Visit Influenced.org/talkaboutit to download a free conversation guide to help you learn how to have “micro-conversations” with your teens about these topics.
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