Oklahomans Against Human Trafficking (oathcoalition.org) reports that the FBI reports the #1 way that sexual predators find children is online via social networking sites. NCMEC reports over 100,000 kids are prostituted each year. Studies show 300,000 kids are at risk each year to be recruited into the sex industry. Kids online, foster care kids, school dropouts and runaways are our most at risk populations in the nation for commercial sexual exploitation. OATH is launching a new educational campaign this fall into public schools - "Protect Oklahoma Kids". OATH reports:
When most 12 year old girls should be having fun and learning at school with their friends... some girls are being recruited online by a new friend. Predators and recruiters pretending to be boyfriends groom young girls and talk them out of their home, with promises of a better life. Many of these young girls will be psychologically enslaved and forced into prostitution or child pornography. Every year thousands more are lured into this dark world of exploitation...
Protect Oklahoma Kids is a partnership between OATH Coalition, the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children and Oklahoma College Campuses to bring the truth about online grooming to elementary, middle school and junior high students in a new effort to prevent this growing trend of the online recruitment of our nations young girls into the sex industry.
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