The study used state administrative data to examine 4,413 allegations of sex and labor trafficking involving 3,420 children. The study found that these children were more than twice as likely as other children to have experienced prior maltreatment. Among children with prior child welfare experience, those with trafficking allegations were twice as likely to have experienced out-of-home placement, and just over five times as likely to have experienced congregate care, and 10 times as likely to have run away from placements. Although these data cannot be interpreted as representing the true prevalence of human trafficking within the child welfare population, they expand knowledge of known victims, along with associated implications for research, practice, and policy. (Publisher abstract modified)
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