While trafficking is sometimes advertised and marketed online or in newspapers, services from residential brothels are publicized by distributing business cards ("tarjetas") and when johns hear of the brothel's existence "through the grapevine." It is through this form of advertisement and verbal communication that johns pay $30 for 15-minutes of sex, with women and children each "serving" up to 48 men every day. With a 7 day work week, victims may be having sex with as many as 336 men a week.
Who are the victims?
Frequently, victims are undocumented and unfamiliar with their surroundings. They may have been smuggled into the country with traffickers taking their passports and forms of identification upon arrival. If victims are illegal immigrants, the chance for traffickers to manipulate them remains high, as the women may feel, and are, completely vulnerable. An aggregate of conditions including financial instability and geographic unfamiliarity form a dangerous combination that leave women and children vulnerable to trafficking. This applies not just to victims in residential brothels, but to all trafficking victims.
Remember- someone is being trafficked if they are forced, coerced or fraudulently lured into the industry.
For confidential assistance and information on trafficking, call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center's national trafficking hotline number: 1-888-3737-888
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