“It is barbaric and it is evil and it has no place in a civilized world,” – President Barack Obama

Yet it persists. Did you know more people are enslaved today than have been enslaved throughout history?  That law enforcement experts believe human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world?

Human trafficking is a ~32 billion dollar industry that victimizes nearly 21 million people across the world and Florida carries the shame of consistently being one of the top 3 states in our nation for this atrocious crime.

The United Nations defines human trafficking as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of people — by threat, abduction, deception or abuse of power — for the purpose of sexual or labor-related exploitation. Eighty percent of those trafficked are women and girls, and half of all trafficking victims are younger than 13.

Slaves fight our wars, grow our food…