People who help fight human trafficking, what tips do you have for spotting and reporting

it?

I'm an intern at a human trafficking task force.

It really helps just knowing the basics because I had no idea everything that it entails.

There's trafficking of women, the one we all know the most about, labor trafficking and organ

trafficking. Trafficking happens through force,

fraud and or coercion. Trafficking is something of value that is being exchanged. The something

of value can be food, shelter, clothes and money. You get the gist. There's also the age issue. Anyone

under the age of 18 that does stuff in exchange for a good is automatically

considered a human trafficking victim. Even if the legal age of consent is 16, a 16-year-old

can't have consent to commercial activities of that type. It also doesn't matter if they say

they're 18 and have fake identification proving they're 18. If you're caught paying someone that's

legally 16,

for a certain kind of act, you are human trafficking. My organization is holding a webinar of this

soon, and we also have social media where we explain the issues. Visualization helps us

fight human trafficking, and so do donations if you can. We're a non-profit. Thanks for listening.

I work as front desk for a hotel. I had a couple of experiences with this. You should look out for groups of two to three where one person

does all of the talking, specifically when the others look scared or are overly covered, or cringe

when the talker is speaking. Also, if they look like they're under the influence of something.

Ensure that you get ID from all parties when you suspect something is going down. Note their room

numbers and the name's given. Trust your gut, what we call a gut feeling. It's a combination of

millions of tiny factors you might not knowingly be aware of. Tiny details like hitched breathing,

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