This free public workshop will discuss keeping yourself and your loved ones safe, featuring guest speakers Sue Flynn and Stacy Kallman, New Jersey Coalition Against Human Trafficking advocates.
Human trafficking is modern-day slavery and involves using force, fraud, or coercion to exploit a person for labor or commercial sex. Any minor, anyone under 18, who is induced to perform a commercial sex act is a victim of human trafficking according to U.S. law, regardless of whether there is force, fraud, or coercion.
Every year, millions of men, women, and children are trafficked in countries worldwide – including the United States. Many of these victims are lured with false promises of financial or emotional security; they are forced or coerced into commercial sex (prostitution), domestic servitude, or other types of forced labor.
Crime organizations such as gangs are increasingly luring children from local schools into commercial sexual exploitation or trafficking.