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v <br /> SEX TRAFFICKING EXPERIENCES ACROSS <br /> HAWAYI <br /> PARTICIPANT P FILE <br /> IN = 97 m • <br /> • The victims were identified in a cross-sectional <br /> survey study of 363 participants served by Child and <br /> Family Service. <br /> • Sixty-four percent of the sex trafficking victims <br /> identified as being all or some Native Hawaiian. <br /> • More than a quarter (n = 97, 26.7%) of the clients <br /> surveyed during a three-month period in 2019 <br /> e <br /> identified as having experienced sex trafficking as <br /> defined by federal law. <br /> • The sex trafficking victims were identified on Oahu <br /> (45.4%), Maui (23.7%), Hawai`i Island (20.6°1), Kauai <br /> (6.2%), and Molokai (3.131). <br /> • The victims age at first sex trafficking experience . • . • <br /> ranged from 4 to 55 years-old, with an overall • • <br /> average age of first sex trafficking experience being <br /> 21.4 years. - ' • . • ' s <br /> • Twenty-three percent of the sex trafficking victims <br /> were first sex trafficked before they turned 18 <br /> years old. <br /> • Of those participants first trafficked under the age • • • <br /> of 18, the average age of 1st sex trafficking ` • <br /> victimization was 11.3 years old. <br /> SEX TRAFFICKING IN HAWAI'I I EXECUTIVE SUMMARY <br />