Another popular service is forced marriage, which is common with children. Of all forced marriage victims, 37 percent are children (Human Trafficking by the Numbers). These traffickers have sick tactics to catch their victims. Human traffickers hunt outside of big homes such as foster home, which is full of children who were abandoned by their parents. As Laura Riso said, a victims specialist for the FBI, traffickers go near high schools because victimization is all about vulnerability. The traffickers will try everything, they may complement their prey, as it is from saying I like your hair, or You have very pretty eyesΒ, doing this to gain small amounts of trust with potential victims (Fonrouge). They may flirt with the victims and ask to take them out to dinner or to walk around, all though this may seem flattering, these are the ways to trick vulnerable people who are not on high alert.
Once a victim is captured, they are taken into the human trafficking loop. These victims may be shipped around the country to different groups and
projects of human traffickers, sold for money and drugs in most cases. These criminals are mostly in it for money, sex, power, and drugs. In Moscow, a woman was selling girls from Moldova for $2,865 to human traffickers. In Columbia, men were paying criminal gangs up to $2,600 on an online auction to have sex with a virgin girl (Havocscope). Of the approximately 40.3 million victims of human trafficking globally, 25 percent are children, 8 percent are trapped in some type of labor, and 75 percent are female (Midway). Females are more common for the act of sex trafficking, they make up 99 percent of all sex trafficking victims. The State Department estimated that between 5,000 and 50,000 women are trafficked alone each year in the United States. Not only does the United States commit this crime but the United Nations themselves estimate nearly 2.5 million people from 27 different countries are being trafficked around the world which not only includes sex trafficking but forced labor, bonded labor, and forced prostitution (Greenhaven 23).