Join Cooper Medical School of Rowan University for a special screening of the documentary, Sex+Money: A National Search for Human Worth, a documentary about human trafficking and domestic minor sex trafficking, contemporary forms of human slavery and abuse affecting at least 100,000 youth in the United States annually.
- Human trafficking—specifically, child sex trafficking—is a thriving industry. Approximately 100,000 children are trafficked in the United States annually.[i]
- The average age that a person first enters into the commercial sex industry is 12‐14 years old.
- Runaway youth, child-welfare-involved youth and youth with drug-involved parents are most at risk for entering the commercial sex industry.[ii]
- Within 48 hours of leaving home, one in three runaway teens will be approached by someone involved in the commercial sex industry.[iii]
- In 2012, the National Runaway Safeline hotline received 2,123 calls from youth in NJ.[iv]
Register for the documentary at: https://www.onlineregistrationcenter.com/hteventcooper
Location:
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Auditorium
Camden, NJ 08103
Check-In and Seating: 4:45 p.m.
Film Screening: 5 p.m.
Film Discussion: 6:45 p.m.
This event is co-sponsored by The C.A.R.E. Team, Cooper Hospital Emergency Department, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University and Prevent Child Abuse-New Jersey.
[i] (Source: http://contemporarypediatrics.modernmedicine.com/contemporary-pediatrics/enewssignup?cid=PEDSNATIVE)
[ii] (Source: United States Department of State (June 2013). Trafficking in Persons Report. Available at: http://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/2013/)
[iii] http://www.cpe.rutgers.edu/njdcf2013/docs/024-Preventing-Human-Trafficking-Child-Sexual-Exploitation-in-NJ.pdf)
[iv] Missing Person Unit, NJ Bureau of Criminal Investigation
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