Child victims of trafficking are those who have been "recruited, transported, transferred, harboured or received for the purpose of exploitation". Children can be trafficked for various reasons, including sexual exploitation, forced labour, domestic servitude, criminal activities, benefit fraud, organ harvesting or illegal adoption. Some victims may not come to the attention of statutory or voluntary service providers until they have been in the country, suffering abuse and exploitation, for months or years.
Children who have been trafficked are often very fearful. Threats may have been made towards them or their families, and large debts may be owed to their traffickers. They are often subjected to physical, psychological or sexual abuse or neglect and may have been coached in a version of events which they are told to relay if they are apprehended by the authorities.
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