The United States Ranks #13 Behind the UK, France, Mexico, Germany, and Canada in Their Response to Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, September 28th, 2022 World Childhood USA launched the USA's pilot US Out of the Shadows (US OOSI) Index with a live webinar and roundtable discussion featuring sex trafficking survivors, activists and policymakers at Shearman & Sterling LLP in Washington, DC. The report which was developed in partnership with Economist Impact was designed to help uncover how individual states are tackling child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA), both in person and online. The twelve states highlighted in the US Pilot Out of The Shadows Index are Connecticut, Illinois, Nevada, New York, Texas, Vermont, Wyoming, Louisiana, California, West Virginia, North Dakota, and Minnesota.
- The report which was developed in partnership with Economist Impact was designed to help uncover how individual states are tackling child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA), both in person and online.
- The twelve states highlighted in the US Pilot Out of The Shadows Index are Connecticut, Illinois, Nevada, New York, Texas, Vermont, Wyoming, Louisiana, California, West Virginia, North Dakota, and Minnesota.
- Illinois, Texas, and Vermont are the only states that have consulted CSEA victims on their experiences of the response system.
- The United States Pilot Out of the Shadows Indexwas designed to help uncover how states are tackling CSEA both in person and online.