Prostitution. Pornography. Survival sex. Commercial sexual exploitation is more than just young people being sexually abused by adults. Perpetrators victimize young people by paying, or promising to pay, money, goods or services to a youth-or a pimp-in exchange for sexual acts or entertainment.

The impact of commercial sexual exploitation on young victims is often devastating. Instead of attending school, they face violence, disease and jail. Before they are even old enough to vote, they lose their dignity and their freedom. They suffer emotional trauma that may never go away.

Helping young people escape from exploitation should be a top priority of communities and youth workers everywhere.

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OKLAHOMA CITY - OKC PD arrest two people for allegedly trying to use their children for prostitution at truck stop! A truck driver called the police after he said a 16 yr old girl knocked on his window and asked if he wanted company.

Officers stopped an SUV in the parking lot of the Petro Truck Stop at 20 Martin Luther King Ave. and found the pair with six children ranging from 9 to 17 yrs old.

Police report that at least 1 in 5 girls being prostituted at our truck stops are under the age of 18. Trapped in a lifestyle of servicing men that are often old enough to be their grandfather in this horrific form of "modern slavery".

Watch the video at KOKH-TV Oklahoma City to hear from one of Oklahoma's top law enforcement officers from the OKCPD Predator Unit describe the problem that we have here in Oklahoma.