More than 1200 Incidents of Human Trafficking reported in US: Between January 2007 and September 2008, there were 1,229 alleged incidents of human trafficking in the United States, according to the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics. The bureau says that 83 percent of the incidents involved sex trafficking, 32 percent involved sex trafficking of children, and 12 percent involved labor trafficking. Women were most likely to be victims, accounting for 90 percent of all trafficking victims and 99 percent of those involved in sex trafficking. 63 percent of sex trafficking victims were US citizens, with Hispanics and Asians the next most affected, with Hispanics making up 37 percent of the alleged sex trafficking victims and 56 percent of labor victims. Perpetrators were overwhelming male, making up nearly 8 in 10 of the suspects.