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SEX TRAFFICKING 1 Sex Trafficking Ashley Treharne The Ohio State University, College of Social Work SWK 5006: Sexualities, Diversity, and Social Work Jorie Schwartz, MSW, LISW-S June 4 th , 2024
SEX TRAFFICKING 2 Sex Trafficking Within our communities, youth have become a vulnerable population for commercial sexual exploitation, a term known as sex trafficking. At the highest risk for vulnerability of sex trafficking is LGBTQ+ youth with a low socioeconomic background, struggling with substance use disorder, being an ethnic minority or having immigrant status (Xian, Chock, & Dwiggins, 2017). Sex trafficking has steadily received attention in the United States as more laws and policies are implemented to protect youth from sex traffickers who are exploiting them (Browne- James, Litam, McRae, 2021). Lgbtq youth are faced with many risk factors and challenges of commercial sexual exploitation as sex traffickers will use specific recruitment techniques such as spend time building the trust of their victims and spending money on them to make them feel important through grooming (Browne-James, Litam, McRae, 2021). The topic of sex trafficking is relevant to the social work profession as recent research shows how adverse childhood events can have emotional and physical consequences on Lgbtq youth communities such as increases of mental health symptoms, physical illness, and social stigmatization, into adulthood (Browne- James, Litam, McRae, 2021). Sexual exploitation and sexual health In recent years, sex trafficking has become a public health concern and the impact of sexual health and falsely grooming Lgbtq youth into this fantasy that sex trafficking and the fundamental aspects of interpersonal sexual relationships are equal (Fortenberry, 2019). Many victims of trafficking are first targeted between the ages 12 to 15 years. These ages are a crucial time for child development
SEX TRAFFICKING 3 Screenings When a child has experienced sexual exploitation, it is important for practitioners and medical service providers to address the needs of the child for sexually transmitted diseases, sexually transmitted infections, physical abuse, mental health symptoms, so that a child can begin to receive the necessary treatment. Research shows that youth victims will not immediately disclose the sexual abuse they have endured due to many factors such as fear, guilt, shame, and distrust (Peterson et al., 2022). Research shows a high rate of Lgbtq individuals being the target of physical violence toward beginning from childhood. Through a multidisciplinary team of professionals, many healthcare systems have implemented the Ishikawa diagram, a tool that is administered to child sex trafficking victims by a registered nurse (Peterson et al., 2022). Psychosocial information is collected such as the child’s mental health history, physical and sexual abuse through the screening tool (Peterson et al., 2022). Sexual exploitation and its form of technology Lgbtq youth are twice as likely to be targeted compared to heterosexual youth based on adverse childhood experiences, a lack of family support and supervision (Allan, Winters & Jeglic, 2023). The Convention on the Rights of the Child provides child protection against forms of sexual exploitation and sexual violence, including pornography and prostitution (Tolbaru, 2024). These protections include commercial sexual exploitation in video and audio materials, sexual abuse of children, prostitution, sexual slavery, child trafficking and the sale of children for all sexual purposes (Tolbaru, 2024).
SEX TRAFFICKING 4 In many cases, youth experience multiple victimization of sexual exploitation both offline, through the sex trafficker seeking ways to build rapport with children that they can get close too. For sexual predators to gain access to children, they will utilize the internet and social media platforms to lure children in through online anonymity (Tolbaru, 2023). Risk factors Lgbtq youth are being targeted by sexual traffickers right in their own community. This is because many Lgbtq youth are experiencing homelessness, a lack of parental support, and access to necessities such as food and water (Xian, Chock & Dwiggins, 2017). Sex traffickers will lure child victims in through sex survival , through understanding their immediate need to receive necessities (Xian, Chock & Dwiggins, 2017). This leads to the effects of attachments to form trust with child victim through secure attachment such as empathic responses and other forms of attachment that a child is lacking to help build that trust of a caregiver as a safe base (Xian, Chock & Dwiggins, 2017). Lgbtq youth individuals who have experienced rejection and abandonment from their parents and caregivers are most vulnerable. The lines of being a caregiver and safe base for child victims have been researched through the relationship between the perpetrator and the child victim. For Lgbtq youth, the trauma that occurs early on from adverse children experiences of betraying event, can make the manipulation of attachment that the perpetrator is trying to convey, seem self-protective (Xian, Chock & Dwiggins, 2017). In the United Sates, The Trafficking Victim Protection Act for crimes against minors, the use of coercion, force, and fraud do not have to established of a crime being committed against a youth (Xian, Chock & Dwiggins, 2017); moreover, when there is evidence that a child receiving value for their survival, is determined to be child being sexually trafficked (Xian, Chock & Dwiggins, 2017).
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