Sex Trafficking in Hawaii Part 1: Exploring Online Sex Buyers and Part 2: The Stories of Survivors is a groundbreaking first-of-its kind report on the demand for prostitution in Hawaii. Executive Director Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women Khara Jabola-Carolus and Arizona State University, Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research Dominique Roe-Sepowitz and Kristen Bracy shared their report findings and spearheaded the collection of information about the sex trade in Hawaii.
Status of Women - Sandra Muragin, Maryann Sasaki, Kathy Crowell, Erika Valente, Khara Jabola-Carolus, Edie Ignacio-Neumiller, Sharon Lasker and Patricia Wistinghausen.
"If there were no buyers, there would be no business for the pimps and traffickers and no victims of human trafficking," Ms. Roe-Sepowitz - The statistics were shocking...they interviewed known participants who were sex trafficked in Hawaii. 59.1% reported childhood abuse, 81.8% reported a close family member in jail, 72.2% witnessed drug use in their homes as children, the average age of a first sex trafficking experience was 14.7 years old and 27.7% reported being raped or gang raped by their first trafficker as part of their grooming into the sex trafficking situation. To read more on these reports go to the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women website: https://humanservices.hawaii.gov/hscsw.
Arizona State *Speakers*! - Ellen Ching, Sharon Lasker, Edie Ignacio Neumiller, *Kristin Bracy*, *Dominique Roe-Sepowitz*, Sandra Muragin and Theresa Koki,