Domestic Human Sex Trafficking in the United States Human sex trafficking and its sister category, domestic child sex trafficking, also known as DMST, (Kotrla, K. 2010) is the most common form of modern slavery. In the United States, there are an estimated 293,000 youth who fall into the high-risk or DMST category (Walker-Rodriguez, A. & Hill, R. 2011). Many men exploit at-risk young people to make their fortune. DMST exposes young people to a life full of violence, both mental and physical abuse, as well as isolation. The Victims of the Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 defines sex trafficking as “where a commercial sexual act is induced by force, fraud or coercion or where the person induced to perform such act is under the age of 18 years of age; or recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for labor or services through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjecting him or her to involuntary servitude, debt bondage, or slavery." (Kotrla, K. 2010). Description of the population and the problem Statistics show that girls between the ages of 12 and 14 (Walker-Rodriguez, A. & Hill, R. 2011) who are children who have run away from violent families as well as children who find themselves homeless are at greater risk of human trafficking. (Kotrla, K. 2010). Many children in foster care and child protective services are also at increased risk of becoming victims of DMST (Kotrla, K. 2010). Girls are seen as vulnerable, wanting someone to turn to them as a source of trust, leaving them feeling like they owe something to the man who took them in. The need for protection, a home and the desire for a The safe environment that these men empty-handedly promise these children makes them easy targets. Every year, approximately 2.8 million girls become victims of human sex