Abstract:
The following fact sheet provides facts and statistics on commercial sexual exploitation of children. It covers common patterns of child sexual exploitation, including risk or vulnerability characteristics and some perpetrator characteristics. It also summarizes the main points of Brantley’s study of commercially sexually exploited youth in San Francisco, Framing the issues of commercial sexual exploitation of children, including health and mental health outcomes. This fact sheet draws from studies dating from 1998-2009. (CVRL Abstract)