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But we owe it to the world to see that boys are provided with the care they need.” “We were met with more resistance because we are helping boys. “They haven’t told even their families what they’ve been through,” Jones says. Relationships also suffer, with spouses and children frustrated and perplexed by their loved one’s bouts of depression, random anger and emotional numbness. They’re more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol. And like other victims of sexual abuse, they’re at greater risk of depression, suicide and chronic diseases. The result is that tens of thousands of boys and men continue to suffer in silence. In 2013, an ECPAT-USA report concluded that the “scope of (the commercial sexual exploitation of boys) is vastly under reported.” The researchers also cited the need to better identify male victims, to raise awareness about the harm caused by commercial exploitation and to provide more services designed specifically for boys.īut years later, little progress has been made either in identifying or providing help for male victims. In 2008, researchers from the John Jay School of Criminal Justice reported that boys account for about 45 percent of child trafficking victims in New York City. sex industry (about 60 percent are female and more than 4 percent are transgender males and females). In 2016, a Department of Justice-commissioned study, Youth Involvement in the Sex Trade, found that boys make up about 36 percent of children caught up in the U.S. Multiple studies support Elam and Procopio’s contention that boys are exploited far more often than is commonly understood. They’re just not getting it in terms of the sex trafficking of males.” “The UN and others are not acknowledging the problem. “It makes me very angry,” Jerome Elam, a male survivor who is CEO of the Trafficking in America Task Force, said.
Boys, they told me, are rarely the victims of commercial exploitation. The ILO reported that of the 4.8 million people forced to work in the sex trade in 2016, virtually all were girls and women.Īs I reported on this series, some nonprofit leaders involved in the fight against trafficking in the U.S. The United Nations’ International Labour Organization reinforced that mindset in September when it released updated estimates on the number of human trafficking victims worldwide. ►How to find help for male victims of sex trafficking “This is seen as a gender-biased, gender-specific issue.” “Boys hear that it only happens to girls,” Steven Procopio, clinical director of MaleSurvivor, a network of therapists and survivors,says. Tom Jones’ tortuous journey - from male child trafficking victim to adult survivor - is far more common than is often acknowledged by anti-trafficking organizations, law enforcement and the news media. “And Boys Too,” ECPAT-USA, 2013 report. For example, when filing human trafficking reports, they would often ask: ‘Why couldn’t he get away? He’s a boy.’ One informant said she was forced to explain to law enforcement professionals before filing a report that boys and young men can be bought and sold just like girls.” “Key informants pointed out their belief that law enforcement has very little understanding of (commercially exploited) boys. Watch Video: Boys are sex trafficking victims, too “I was very ashamed to talk to a therapist who I knew cared about me,” he says. And Jones says he was preparing for a third attempt when he decided finally to reach out for help.Įven then, years after the exploitation ended, it was difficult for Jones to acknowledge what he had suffered. “I put a lot of focus and energy into taking my own life.” “I’m lucky because I shouldn’t be here,” Jones says. Instead, he buried his pain and shame deep inside, carrying the burden alone and in silence for another 15 years. But, like many male victims, Jones didn’t seek help, didn’t tell anyone about the trauma he had suffered. The silence nearly killed Tom Jones.Īs a child, Jones was raped, abused and sold to men for sex. This is the fourth of 10 columns in the EXPLOITED series. IndyStar columnist Tim Swarens spent a year investigating the commercial sex trade of children, a lucrative business where more than 1 million kids a year are abused.