runaway-teens

RUNAWAY TEENAGERS AND SEX TRAFFICKING:
PUSH – PULL FACTORS

Million Kids has educated hundreds of thousands of parents and kids about how predators use dating sites, social media apps, online gaming chat rooms, and mass audience live streaming apps to seduced and groom young people that often ends in exploitation. It is believed that social media is used in over 90% of minor-related sex trafficking cases to access and groom the victim. It is also believed that one out of six youth, who runaway from home, will be victims of sex trafficking in the first 48 hours. That is simply astounding!

Million Kids often works with anguished parents, who are trying to find their runaway child. We send out hundreds of thousands of online flyers trying to assist those parents. We often speak with kids about social media and how pimps, predators and pedophiles will seduce them or blackmail them with an illicit photo. We find that most kids will listen if we explain it in terms they understand.

Million kids is able to do this work because people DONATE and make this possible. While this work is hard and sometimes very frustrating, it is also very rewarding when a missing teen is returned home, a girl admits that she was thinking of meeting a new love on the internet but decided not to, or a young man admits he is tempted to send a nude photo, but now understands why he should not. The “ALMOST BUT DIDN’T” cases are our favorite and makes our work worthwhile. But often, we are frustrated as we talk with very at-risk kids who are contemplating a life-changing move on the internet.

This week we examine the “push-pull” influencing factors that make runaway youth so vulnerable. We will identify many factors that make a teen more vulnerable to recruitment and also some of the positive things families can do to help their child build strong identify and self worth.

Join us Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 7:00am PST on Voice America Variety Channel or access the archived show on ExploitedCrimes.com as we explore this controversial topic.

RESOURCES, LINKS and CASES:

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Opal Singleton is the President and CEO of Million Kids, a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to keeping kids safe from predators. Million Kids serves as the Training and Outreach Coordinator for the Riverside County Anti Human Trafficking Task Force and works with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department through a Department of Justice Grant. Opal has trained more than 250,000 government and individual leaders about labor trafficking, child sex trafficking, sextortion, child pornography and social media exploitation. She is the author of Seduced: The Grooming of America’s Teenagers and often appears on television and radio talk shows across the United States. Opal is an Instructor at USC Price Safe Communities Institute and a Co-Instructor at the USC School of Social Work for the Los Angeles Police Department LEAD program. She is an Instructor at Los Angeles Fire Leadership Training Academy she serves on the Board of Directors for Rapha House International in Cambodia, Thailand and Haiti. Opal has completed the Robert Presley Institute of Criminal Investigation Instructor Course and served on the Peace Officers Standardized Training) panel to develop the training curriculum on human trafficking for law enforcement for California. Opal hosts two weekly radio shows. KTIE 590 AM broadcasts “Exploited: Crimes and Technology” every Saturday at 3:00 throughout Southern California. “Exploited: Crimes against Humanity” is a global Internet weekly human trafficking training program that broadcasts through Voice America Variety Channel to more than 170 countries. If your organization, church, school or business would like to learn more about trafficking and exploitation in your community, contact us to arrange an informative presentation at: (951) 323-0298 or email us at info@millionkids.org. Visit our website at: http://www.millionkids.org

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