""I have a girl that's 12 years old for your client,'" the pilot said. The client's response: "No, we think we need an 8-year-old." The group was horrified. "I have two daughters," Lux says. "We said, 'Wait a minute, really? Where are these people?' Until that time, I thought it only happened overseas. And they said, 'No, it happens in every community in the United States'.""
"Lux and his colleagues would learn the extent of the crisis-a $150 billion global criminal enterprise whose size trails only that of illegal drugs. Human trafficking involves more than 27 million victims worldwide-who are forced into marriages, slave labor, military service, organ sales, and sexual exploitation. That includes some 200,000 victims domestically, prompting January to be designated as National Human Trafficking Prevention Month."
Ken Lux attended an FBI briefing on child trafficking after serving as commander of the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office Air Squadron, a volunteer group of 50 general aviation pilots supporting police missions and community service. An airline pilot was jailed for using credentials to traffic children to clients in the Philippines, negotiating ages as young as eight. Photographs showed girls crammed into squalid rooms, branded with clipped ears, tattoos, and burns, with life expectancies averaging seven years. Human trafficking is a $150 billion global criminal enterprise with more than 27 million victims worldwide, including roughly 200,000 domestic victims.
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