Sexual contact that is forced, coerced, manipulated, or compelled through intimidation IS ABUSE.
Thousands of young women and children have their innocence, their bodies, their spirit, their hope, their families, sometimes even their very lives ripped away from them daily. This horror sounds so heinous that most of us can’t imagine that this could happen here in the United States but this is the reality of what children and young adult sex trafficking victims are experiencing in communities across the United States right now.
Funds raised through Monarch support US Safe, Crisis Aid International’s response to sex trafficking in the US. US Safe is a multi-pronged approach that includes a safe house for victims to live in, the revolutionary CAP program aimed at preventing the most at risk youth from being trafficked and Monarch, a volunteer group raising awareness and funds.