we have so very much to talk about yes sir and your efforts in the energy that you have brought to this area in the last six years has had transforming  to life name by marvin a slice kelly of united way worldwide traffic an army is an anti human trafficking sexual violence and youth crime prevention organization we work in there with all of the root causes of sexual violence human trafficking and not just sex slavery and prostitution but all forms of human trafficking domestic servitude labor trafficking and farm trafficking you know for for many of us really really didn't today here in the state of florida human trafficking is on the rise should i say yes yes mary and then in our very own area i know that let's go back a few years and come forward since being here and the role that you know played in identifying and and bringing this to another level of understanding what difference are we seeing here and in the yeah yeah the truck traditional district but the main victim services that we provide are right here in sarasota county and manatee county i think you know knowing that the tampa bay region in and of itself is depending how the number fluctuates around fourteen in the nation and that you know stats are great i love stats but no one knows exactly but according to national trafficking resource center we can say that it's high you know you have a  miami you have the child that is your district you have you know towns where there are waterways and gateways to shipping international travel tourism you're going to see a high propensity of different forms of human trafficking and i think one of the unique things about the stay florida who's done some incredible things to combat this horrendous crime is that over ninety percent of all the farm trafficking in the entire united states and farm trafficking is a big deal that homeland security is dealing with is in the state of florida and so wherever you see labor trafficking domestic trafficking farm you're going to see sex trafficking and just to be clear some people think will i thought trafficking meant that you had to like crossed a county line or municipality but that's not the case some of the victims that we serve right here in our county never left their room we have a domestic violence victim who was locked in a room for fourteen years here and identified that came repeatedly raped in a room by a family member from three years old five years old six years old in this county and even in the state all the way to fifteen sixteen eighteen twenty even impregnated by that individual and so that is a form of human trafficking familial sex slavery and some of the exciting things i love about being here is that the support of the attorney general terms of some of the legislative practices span oh who's congressman in the tampa area sent a lot vala over in the west palm beach area and senator flores over in miami that worked to establish bills that we have really fought for and worked on that affect us right here in our county for instance actually add it language to house bill three six nine and lobby for that for a year and the junior league of tampa was really instrumental in assisting with that but what's exciting about that is that bill had nothing pertaining to sex slavery and going back and forth and arguing that they didn't act but they added prostitution and because prostitution is a prevalent thing that's been happening for years and some people consider it the oldest profession  the world but it it is not a profession it's a federal crime and many of our young girls and boys are being indoctrinated into that because of issues of poverty and homelessness just  of the lines are so when we have an issue here this young person has undoubtedly been in tampa sure or they've been in miami so we provide services here in the victims of here and sometimes they leave and they come back home and so we serve them when we can we will we start this and you do everything in fall with a number of other to where we are now dealing with the mail the the the individual not just the victims but the person creates the carnage and yours  moved in an area that many haven't yes to do that can you speak just a bit on that because i know i think it was last year you and i spoke some time ago purchasing of commercial sex exploitation i think that which is prostitution yes we have a passion for her father's i'm a survivor of human trafficking called it stop let's our safe house in our educational curriculum and we said more to life mary and i are you for allowing me to share with this beautiful city and county today and we say victim to survivor survivor to thrive or and thrive or to champion and the beauty about that is that i believe that we're born for greatness i believe that when this happens to a child or there is a predisposition to being violated they're having trouble in school  no one has identified why is that child having trouble in school or throwing things or acting out not always do we take the time to listen and to watch into a victim identify which is an educational process we teach that the child has been profoundly sexually violated at home human trafficked at home sometimes past a while around from family member to family member or father to friend we have many of these cases by the time they hit sixteen they change there's a volatile ness there's an anger and it's easy then for a quote unquote outside of the home or community trafficker to come in and say hey and they look for that weakness even the book which i recommend everyone read called compile the g one of the rules is to find someone with the weakness and to perpetuate that weakness if not create one and it's always with someone who's been previously broken because over ninety percent of prostituted individuals on the north trail and anywhere in the united states have been sexually violated as a child and that's the same for young boys but i would say that men are the biggest problem to this issue because over ninety percent of the violators and i think that they're the biggest part of the solution on our my father on are men of honor  have the biggest role to play because every child that we have worked with has said i've never really had a dad that loved me or a man of honor and the young men who are perpetrating that we talk to no one's ever given me the rite of passage no one's ever told me what being a man is i learned it from my buddy how to see fifteen ok that's a problem because he's broken his father's incarcerated and they're in a click together so it creates an issue and so in closing the sentence out the legacy of fatherhood and us lobbying for house before six five words which was a mandatory educational process for those who are busted for sexual violence and commercial sea sect commercial exploitation and prostitution have to go through the more to life educational process which we call restored of justice in demand education and the attorney for the individual or the timeframe it's not a diversion program it is something post jail sentences or they didn't time they just got probation because they were caught in a sting they actually didn't commit the act but they were about to money exchange the guy got twenty five years so they have to go through our eight hour course and they have to spend an hour with us every week for ninety days and follow ups and that one man they come into the class pretty scared feeling pretty guilty but we don't beat them up at the end i shake their hand and we talk about real change we talk about what does it mean to be a man of honor here the you know we break the myth of prostitution being the oldest profession in the world by creating a job pos for a young girl who's looking for that for a life goal and at the end of the class they're there in tears what about my son i didn't know i'm having these other issues and we can leave them to other resources and therapists if there's a deeper issue of sexual violence and a lot of young boys don't have a rite of passage anymore sure when we go to compass and we talk to the kids you know they say well has anyone taught you how to be a dad no my my dad's in jail or he left when i was two i don't know him so there's no rights of assets no one gives them the keys to the kingdom of a man now ok and so the cycle here some national statistics from the ages of fourteen to sixteen if you have a car should a parent or no father there propensity for criminal activity suicide goes up sixty percent between the ages of fourteen and sixteen sixteen and eighteen it goes up four hundred percent and so someone who is in a fatherless home or in a car straight a parent or all these other points of impact  addicted parents or an alcoholic parent or divorced and you stack the deck or you come from a family where the mother's been sexually violated or you've been subtly violated cornish john hopkins bloomberg school of medicine you have all these points of impact stacked against because behavioral and psychological trauma and the trauma doesn't always show up because the brain isn't developed to a child is twenty four to twenty six and so we identify high risk youth that's the term high wrist highly vulnerable and we go in and we begin to talk about those issues in you know apprenticeship programs leadership programs educational programs and give them a safe place to share we're going to be doing it robert taylor when the olympians come in town and have a table there and every week with bruni and the great thing she doing with hard knocks to partner with chief to peano and the program new beginnings to which she put me director over to get youth in gauged and identify the ones that are having severe  you know my husband is irish italian and i come from a family that is embracing to all cultures i have a passion for people i don't care what your background is and so the girls that we serve predominantly and the young boys are sixty five percent caucasian other parts of the country might see sixty five percent african american certain parts in border towns you might see fifty percent hispanic but here there's a high propensity of caucasian girls and the economic status between them could be anywhere to lower economic status in terms of five home finances it could be meadow and it could even be in a fluent family where it's highly educated in there into the six figures because of this disease this united states according to the state department is now again trafficking and what constitute a gang is three or more persons and it could be a gang or be gang association or a subset of a gang and so kids that come from follows homes boys and girls to be drawn toward large groups of people who say well i will be your daddy i will be your family we're going to you never be alone again and so within that click there is petty theft there are other criminal activities such as gun trafficking drug trafficking and drugs and oftentimes in order to keep a victim there you're addicted to drugs and for instance when i was taken as a child i was injected with drugs i had never done drugs i was a straight a student athlete come from a middle class family and i'm injected with heroin i've never you know had a sip of a beer so being raped simultaneously by a group of guys under the same process when i'm in the young people in the north trail this is been their life up to the point we see them completely out of it walking that trail and not having discovered who they really are so yeah we know conversation you're right and you know when i keynoted at the white house on this issue from florida i was the one you know of your citizens who was invited to the white house to keep no end of it all the think tank with all the administrations there and i was a president jimmy carter doing the same thing last year and talking about the great things we're doing here in florida but the stuff that still has to be done and i think that sexual exploitation in and of itself is camouflaged in a highly sexualized society and i don't think kids are having the opportunity to understand what sexually is and a lot of marriages are failing because we have something now called gonzo feel and their kids as  eight nine a little kid for instance we know a young boy he's just you know a little billy let's say playing with his x box with his friends just being a normal happy kid x box ride a bike you know not messing up too bad typical young boy eight nine years old he gets a pop up on his x box parshall new thing he his mom is kind of said something but not message trying enough because she doesn't know how deep the issue is and so he puts it away addicted to sex at an early age and so we have cases where you know young boys will have raped a sister fifty times and the parents don't know and so what i tell parents in the process of this you know internet safety is key we teach that it more to life it's really important to to understand social media and for kids to understand predator behavior because over fifty percent of human trafficking happens online snap chat facebook so parents need to be very aware of what kids are doing on their smartphones or tablets and their computers and as far as a nation as far as a city we have to understand anywhere where you see a strip club anywhere there's an escort service anywhere with there's a massage parlor you're going to see sexual itself brings a lot of criminal activity those on the outside and those on the inside moving across the state of florida which is at a high level one of the states that is has a major issue of identify youth criminals are youth victims and obviously criminals and here's one of the things we have to understand when we talk about when i asked someone is so when you think of the word prostitute what do you think of most people say oh i think of know girl standing on a corner but we think of prostitution you have to think of a man sitting at his computer because for every one individual that's prostituted traffic on a given night there are seven to ten individuals who purchase that person and so understanding that these players project who worked with us on the bill here and had a something to say when we're here at our press conference the see something say something campaign when you see something unusual you have to call more to life you and bus terminals those signs are to go up this year and they should go everywhere and even though they're not mandated in our business is some businesses should go ahead to the police project and design a really nice sign for their bathrooms because in and of itself most victims will find themselves on a happy day with the traffic inequalities to show because for he violates her or him you take them shopping sure