January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month – a time dedicated to raise awareness about human trafficking and educate the public about how to identify and prevent it.
Everyone has the potential to discover a human trafficking situation. Knowing indicators of human trafficking will help you act on your gut feeling that something is wrong and report it.
As national leaders in child well-being, Children’s Home Society of Florida is sharing warning signs to look for that can alert you to a potential trafficking situation.
Human trafficking indicators and warning signs:
- Person seems overly fearful, submissive, tense, or paranoid
- Person demonstrates signs of physical or psychological abuse, such as lacking self-esteem, seeming anxious, bruising or untreated medical condition
- Person seems to be bonded by debt or has money deducted from their salary
- Person has little or no contact with family or loved ones
- Person is not in possession of their own legal documents
- Person has threats made against themselves or family members
- Person is distrustful of authorities
To report a tip of suspected sex trafficking call the National Human Trafficking Hotline: 1(888)-373-7888.
