The U.S. Department of the State estimates that roughly 12.3 million people around the world are sold into human trafficking every year, more than half of whom are children.
Between February and June of 2014, a 32-year-old Minnesota man began exchanging texts of a sexual nature with a 13-year-old girl who turned 14 during those few months.
On Valentine’s Day 2014, two 19-year-old junior hockey players from Minnesota allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old girl in a hotel room following one of their games.