1. A 2003 study in the Netherlands found that, on average, a single sex slave earned her pimp at least $250,000 a year.
2. Sex trafficking plays a major role in the spread of HIV
3. Sex traffickers use a variety of ways to “condition” their victims, including subjecting them to starvation, rape, gang rape, physical abuse, beating, confinement, threats of violence toward the victim and victim's family, forced drug use, and shame
4. An estimated 30,000 victims of sex trafficking die each year from abuse, disease, torture, and neglect. Eighty percent of those sold into sexual slavery are under 24, and some are as young as six years old.
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