Around the world 1,000,000 children enter the sex trade each year.
Around the world 2,740 children enter the sex trade each day.
Around the world 114 children enter the sex trade each hour.
In 2000 33% of those working in the brothels in Cambodia had HIV/AIDS. In 2005 over 70% were infected.
In Cambodia if a child enters the sex trade prior to their 18thbirth day there is a 90% chance they will come out with AIDS.
In Thailand 14% of the Gross National Product is from the sex trade.
In Cambodia 20% of the Gross National Product is from the sex trade.
In Thailand and Cambodia 1 in 5 people earn their living from the sex trade.
They have literally found children as young as 2 years old locked in rooms as sex slaves in Asia. They regularly find children who are 8 to 12 years old.
4 of the 5 worst countries for child sex trafficking are Cambodia, India, Philippines, and Thailand.
In Asia children are regularly forced to service 10 to 15 men per night.
Girls in India are forced to service up to 25 men per night.
1/3 of the men abusing the children are locals (men in those countries), 1/3 are government officials and policemen, 1/3 are foreigners. Of those Korean and American men are the largest number of abusers.
Many times girls say the worst beatings they received, while in the sex trade, are when customers complained that the girls did not thank the customers for what they did to the girls.
Most programs that work to get children out of the sex trade have recidivism rates of more than 75%. That means that over 75% of the children go back into the sex trade.
