Fresh Start Healing Heart

Determining if someone may be a victim of Labor or Commercial Sexual Exploitation:

•  Is the person free to come and go as they please

•  Is under 18 and providing or soliciting commercial sex

• Is unpaid, paid very little, paid only through tips

•  Works excessively long hours/ odd hours

•  Not allowed breaks or have unusual work restriction

•  Owes a large debt and unable to pay it or has no concept of how much is still owed

•  Was recruited under false pretenses or promises

• High security measures exist in the work and/or living locations (e.g. opaque windows, boarded up windows, bars on windows, barbed wire, security cameras, etc.)

​

 

 

Behavioral Signs:

• Is fearful, anxious, depressed, submissive, tense, or nervous/paranoid
• Exhibits unusually fearful or anxious behavior after bringing up law enforcement
• Avoids eye contact

 

Poor Physical Health

• Lacks health care
• Appears malnourished
• Shows signs of physical and/or sexual abuse, physical restraint, confinement, or torture
• Street name Tattoos, gang names, Symbols, ( Santa Muerte As shown in picture above) Bar codes, numbers

 

Lack of Control:

• Has few or no personal possessions
• Is not in control of his/her own money, no financial records, or bank account
• Is not in control of his/her own identification documents (ID or passport or Visa)
• Is not allowed or able to speak for themselves (a third party may insist on being present and/or translating)

 

Other:

• Claims of just visiting and inability to clarify where he/she is staying/address
• Lack of knowledge of whereabouts and/or do not know what city he/she is in
• Loss of sense of time
• Has numerous inconsistencies in his/her story
• Calls others around them their wife in-laws, Daddy, Uncles when it is clear these people probably are not