Jeffrey Epstein allegedly targeted girls from disadvantaged backgrounds who were most vulnerable to abuse
Many of financier Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged underage victims were “particularly vulnerable to exploitation,” prosecutors said this week — and research on sex-trafficking survivors bears out their claim.
“Today’s charges serve as a warning to individuals who continue to prey upon some of our society’s most vulnerable population: we are coming for you,” New York Police Commissioner James O’Neill said in a statement. Many were from “disadvantaged families, single-parent homes or foster care,” she wrote, with several girls just “one step away from homelessness.” Some girls had endured parents’ suicides, abusive fathers and abused mothers, she added.
Survivors of human trafficking are overwhelmingly female and often young. Around 81% are female and at least a quarter are minors, according to 2017 statistics from the nonprofit organization Polaris, which operates the National Human Trafficking Hotline. And economically disadvantaged individuals often fall prey to such exploitation: One 2016 study examining the role of gangs in San Diego sex trafficking found that a majority of facilitators relied “less on physical coercion than on exploitation of socioeconomic vulnerability, prior abuse in the home, drug addiction, and mental health issues.”
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