Joyce Beatty: "each year an estimated 1,000 children become victims of human trafficking, and over 3,000 mo..."

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each year an estimated 1,000 children become victims of human trafficking, and over 3,000 more are at risk.

Joyce Beatty · A news conference on the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act · May 25, 2016

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PolitiFact, June 10, 2016 · read the check

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Checked against Not yet checked: the 2010 report of the Ohio Trafficking in Persons Study Commission under the Attorney General, the source of the estimate; no agency publishes a measured annual count.

The record: Ohio Attorney General (Human Trafficking Commission)

Context

Beatty gave the figures for Ohio.

Topics: Children, Trade.

Other claims by Joyce Beatty

According to Harvard Health Policy Review, each year approximately 30,000 people in the United States die as a result of gunfire, and about 80,000 people are wounded

A floor speech in the U.S. House of Representatives · January 14, 2013 · PolitiFact: Mostly True

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Sources

A thousand child sex-trafficking victims yearly in Ohio? Nope · PolitiFact · 2016-06-10 · accessed 2026-09-25
Ohio Attorney General (Human Trafficking Commission) · Ohio Attorney General · accessed 2026-10-15

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