End Sex Trafficking

3 Generations has been documenting stories of sex trafficking for more than 10 years. We have created many films and videos recording survivor’s testimony. We believe that sharing these accounts will better inform the public about the victims and their realities.

Most people believe that sex trafficking involves women and children being kidnapped off the street, smuggled across borders, and moved from place to place and that is rarely the case. The majority of women and children most vulnerable to sexual exploitation are those living in poverty and unstable conditions. Many have been sexually abused as children. Most of the children are known to child services and are in foster care. 

Data shows that traffickers target certain groups of people that don’t have support and the ability to get accountability or justice for themselves. It is far more likely that children know their exploiters and can even be related to them than to be kidnapped by a stranger. Focusing on kids being abducted or on a child trafficking cabal leads to a misunderstanding of the true problem and helps to perpetuate this cycle of abuse that fuels a billion dollar industry. Also when the victims don’t fit this model of innocent children from suburbia who are taken by some unknown, they are often considered by society and the justice system as criminals instead of victims. 

There are many in the field who are working to change these perceptions and advances have been made towards the treatment of survivors of sexual exploitation. Unfortunately now with the pandemic there are more people being put in vulnerable positions and the sex trafficking industry is thriving. We won’t know the full impact of it for years to come.

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3 Generations has worked tirelessly for more than 10 years to raise awareness concerning all of the issues surrounding sex trafficking. We believe it to be a human rights abuse that is an ever growing problem. One that mostly goes unpunished. 

We were extremely pleased and relieved when the NXIVm co-founder and cult leader was sentenced to 120 years in prison. He was found guilty last year of racketeering and sex trafficking charges. The story of his control and domination over countless women and girls within his cult is sadly not a novelty. This type of situation plays out in many cities and towns all over the United States. The majority of sex trafficking victims never get justice or the media attention that this and other recent high profile cases have garnered. 

Nationally, around 4.8 million people have been trafficked for forced sexual exploitation. Women and girls account for 71% of these victims. Women of color and indigenous populations are the most vulnerable to these situations. Sex trafficking generates an estimated $99 billion a year in revenue making it the second-largest source of profit from organized crime groups behind drug trafficking. It is a booming industry that thrives because there is high demand. Much more work needs to be done federally and locally to stop the exploitation of trafficked people within this country. We will continue to shine a light on this subject and give victims of this horrendous human rights abuse a platform to tell their stories.

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