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1 paź 2022 · Florida Abuse Hotline (Hotline) alleging one of the human trafficking maltreatments was 1,876 involving 1,506 children. Out of the 1,876 accepted reports, 1,742 (92.86 percent)
1 paź 2023 · Florida Abuse Hotline (Hotline) alleging one of the human trafficking maltreatments was 2,076 involving 1,627 children. Out of the 2,076 accepted reports, 1,862 (89.69 percent)
HTI compiled this Report through a comprehensive examination of public court documents in federal human trafficking cases, as well as a detailed review of news stories and government press releases. Data within the State Reports are consistent with the 2021 Report’s methodology.
In SFY 2020-21, the total number of reports, accepted by the Florida Abuse Hotline (Hotline) alleging one of the human trafficking maltreatments was 2,289 involving 1,750 children.
State law defines child abuse to include child sex trafficking for purposes of accessing child welfare services. For purposes of finding a child to be independent, Florida law expressly includes child sex trafficking within the definition of “abuse” through incorporation of the definition of “sexual abuse.”.
This report provides data for Florida on human trafficking. This includes human trafficking risk factors, cases, hospitalizations and emergency department visits, offenses, and arrests.
The following statistics are based solely on substantive signals about human trafficking and issues related to human trafficking made to the National Human Trafficking Hotline between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020 from signalers in Florida at the time of their signal.
