Sexual Exploitation

This chapter gives a brief overview of sexual exploitation and sex trafficking and indicates that it occurs worldwide affecting children, young people or vulnerable adults, amounting to a billion-dollar annual business. It has a profound effect on its victims and includes forced prostitution as well as child sexual exploitation. Victims are increasingly being groomed through the internet and mobile technology, as well as face to face. Signs of child sexual exploitation and the responsibility of everyone to safeguard those at risk are discussed.