Oklahoma

Survivors 

Council

Who can be a trafficker?

• A boyfriend, a friend, family members, strangers…anyone.

What is Sex-Trafficking?

•  When a person is sexually exploited for the benefit of another for $, drugs, food, housing, or anything of value including power.

By means of Force - the use of threat or violence - Fraud - deception, lies, and promises

Coercion - persuasion by force or threats

What do I look for?

• Signs of physical abuse like burn marks, bruises, and cuts
•  Unexplained absences from school, tired or falling asleep in class
• Sexualized behavior
• Withdrawn depressed or distracted
• Brags about making or having a lot of money, displays expensive items
• New tattoos (often used by pimps to brand victims)
• Older boyfriend, gang involvement, around a person or people that do not fit lifestyle (odd couple)
• Running away, couch surfing (staying with friends, homelessness)
• Multiple cell phones, aliases, social media accounts with different names, graphic online profile pics
• Large number of condoms, hotel key cards, fake IDs, random Visa/MC gift cards
• Venmo, Cash App, PayPal accounts on a phone
• Unaware of whereabouts, inconsistencies in stories, little or no eye contact, looking down

What do I do?

• Have as much information as possible, description of persons, identifying marks, make/model/vehicle plate #
• Make the call.