Million Kids President and CEO, Opal Singleton, just returned from Washington D.C. where she participated in the Police Executive Review Forum. What a privilege to participate with the nations top law enforcement executives and NGO’s as they addressed issues related to combating national and global labor and sex trafficking.

During this weeks show, we are going to examine some of the trends that are taking place in sex trafficking.

Foreign National sex trafficking rings are large-scale, multi-national, and multi-state. Many are led by females. Many are established for the purposes of money laundering.

Numerous domestic sex trafficking rings are controlled by gangs. But gangs are changing and are using social media to coerce, recruit, groom and arrange sex buying transactions. Some gangs are operating sex trafficking rings from prison.

Social Media is used in 90 percentage of sex trafficking cases. Much of the communication is encrypted.