Erica Bingmon, a Day One advocate with Crime Victim Services, said labor trafficking often includes situations where individuals do not have control of their personal documents, such as identification cards, Social Security cards, or food stamp cards. “It’s important for employers to look out for those indicators in their employees and even their employees’ children,” Bingmon said.
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It usually is someone that they know that forces them into doing unspeakable things and January has been designated as Human Trafficking Awareness Month to bring light to the issue. In 2019, the Day One Program at Crime Victim Services served 60 human trafficking survivors and 225 since 2012. Human trafficking is defined as the buying and selling of a human being in exchange for a good or service. They have seen cases of men being trafficked for labor, women being coerced to sell their bodies and children being sold by their parents to feed a drug habit. And most all those trafficked know their perpetrator.
