Resources

Human Trafficking Front offers these helpful educational resources to assist in preventing and detecting online child sex trafficking. These resources strengthen the response to offenders and enhance child victims' ability to access assistance and support.

Books


Sex Trafficking of Children Online Book

This book offers a unique conceptual and contextual analysis of online child sexual exploitation from the perspective of trafficking and modern slavery.

Topics include:

  • An interdisciplinary examination of Internet-related child sex trafficking practices and the business model that drives them
  • Vulnerabilities of children in cyberspace, risk factors, and the effects of victimization
  • The illegal use of the Darknet and anonymity tools
  • Law enforcement's role as part of the legal response to cybertrafficking
  • The need for countries to protect children while balancing the fundamental rights to freedom of expression and privacy online
  • A discussion on corporate social responsibility to protect children online 
  • A proposal for an international legislative framework to help countries detect, investigate and punish offenders and protect child victims

Guides


Preventing Online Grooming

An infographic that describes the online grooming of children process, its negative impact on the child victim, and the resources available to support child victims and their families when this type of abuse and exploitation occurs.

Previniendo
la Solicitación en Línea

Un gráfico que representa información sobre el proceso de grooming de niños en línea, su impacto negativo en el niño víctima y los recursos disponibles para apoyar a los niños víctimas y sus familias cuando ocurre este tipo de abuso y explotación.

Understanding Online Grooming

An infographic that describes the online grooming of children process, its negative impact on the child victim, and the resources available to support child victims and their families when this type of abuse and exploitation occurs.

Entendiendo la Solicitación en Línea

Un gráfico que representa información sobre el proceso de grooming de niños en línea, su impacto negativo en el niño víctima y los recursos disponibles para apoyar a los niños víctimas y sus familias cuando ocurre este tipo de abuso y explotación.

Preventing and Responding to Child Sex Trafficking in Cyberspace Guide - English Version

Preventing and Responding to Child Sex Trafficking in Cyberspace: A Guide for Professionals Serving Children and Youth

A presentation that describes online child sex trafficking as a call to awareness and action to fight these types of offenses that sexually exploit children in cyberspace.

Preventing and Responding to Child Sex Trafficking in Cyberspace Guide - Spanish Version

Previniendo y Respondiendo a la Trata de Niños en el Ciberespacio: Una Guia para Profesionales al Servicio de Niños y Jóvenes 

Una presentación que describe la trata sexual de niños en línea como un llamado a la concientización  y la acción para luchar contra este tipo de delitos que explotan sexualmente a los niños en el ciberespacio.

Report Online Child Sexual Exploitation


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Report It

If you think you have seen a missing child, or suspect a child may be sexually exploited, contact the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children 24-hours a day, 7 days a week.

Report Child sexual exploitation

Use the CyberTipline to report child sexual exploitation

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National Human Trafficking Hotline


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Helpful Links


Department of Justice - Human Trafficking Prosecutions: https://www.justice.gov/crt/human-trafficking-prosecution-unit-htpu 

Department of Justice - Human Trafficking Laws: https://www.justice.gov/crt/involuntary-servitude-forced-labor-and-sex-trafficking-statutes-enforced 

Department of Justice - Child Sex Trafficking (International Sex Trafficking of Minors & Domestic Sex Trafficking of Minors): https://www.justice.gov/criminal-ceos/child-sex-trafficking

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children - Child Sex Trafficking: https://www.missingkids.org/theissues/trafficking

FBI Protecting Your Kids: https://www.fbi.gov/scams-and-safety/protecting-your-kids

Project Safe Childhood: https://www.justice.gov/psc

UNICEF: https://www.unicef.org/protection/violence-against-children-online