Join Cooper Medical School of Rowan University for a special screening of Sex+Money: A National Search for Human Worth, a documentary about human trafficking and domestic minor sex-trafficking. These contemporary forms of human slavery and abuse affect 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 here.
Monday, November 3, 2014
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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