In the years before the 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti, an estimated 2,000 children  were believed to be trafficked out of the country each year.

Source:  Kathryn Westcott, “Protecting Haiti’s children from ‘cowboy adoptions’,” BBC News, February 1, 2010.

Between 2000 to 2010, the average age of a girl entering the prostitution industry in India was between 10 to 14 years old.  In previous decades, the average age was between 14 to 16 years old.

Source: “‘India becoming hub for child prostitution’,” Times of India, January 30, 2010.

Every day, an estimated 200 girls enter the prostitution industry in India.  20 percent of the girls are under the age of 15.

Source:  “‘India becoming hub for child prostitution’,” Times of India, January 30, 2010.

Between 5,000 to 7,000 Nepali girls are estimated to be trafficked into India each year.

Source: “‘India becoming hub for child prostitution’,” Times of India, January 30, 2010.

According to the Chinese Government, between 30,000 to 60,000 children go missing each year. Most of them are believed to have been abducted by child traffickers and sold to orphanages who sell them to Western Families for adoption.

Source:  Barbara Demick, “A family in China made babies their business,” Los Angeles Times, January 24, 2010.

The illegal brothels that make up the commercial sex industry in Turkey generates over $4 Billion a year.

Source: E. Benjamin Skinner, A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern Slavery, (New York: Free Press, 2008), page 169.

An estimated 400,000 women from Moldova were sold into slavery between 1991 and 2008.

Source:  E. Benjamin Skinner, A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern Slavery, (New York: Free Press, 2008), page 156.

According to a study in 2003, a trafficked woman working as a  sex slave earned her pimp up to $250,000 a year.

Source: E. Benjamin Skinner, A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern Slavery, (New York: Free Press, 2008), page 144.

From A Crime So Monstrous by E. Benjamin Skinner:

The market price for the guns was greater than the price for the children themselves. In 1986, an AK-47 cost ten cows, or about $1,000. By 2001, a glut of guns (and dearth of cows) shrank the cost to two cows, or about $86 along the Sudan-Uganda border. The child market was more volatile. In early 1987, after al-Mahdi began his counterinsurgency, a Dinka boy cost $90. By 1990, as supply swelled, the price fell to $15. At the time of my visit, CSI had agreed to pay $33 per slave.

Source: E Benjamin Skinner, A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery, (New York: Free Press,2008), page 82.

Police in the Netherlands rescued nearly 500 women in 2009 who were victims of human trafficking.

Source:  Simon Boazman, “Stag parties ‘fuel sex trafficking’,” BBC News, January 14, 2010.