"If there were no buyers, there would be no business for the pimps and traffickers and no victims of human trafficking," Ms. Roe-Sepowitz - The statistics were shocking...they interviewed known participants who were sex trafficked in Hawaii. 59.1% reported childhood abuse, 81.8% reported a close family member in jail, 72.2% witnessed drug use in their homes as children, the average age of a first sex trafficking experience was 14.7 years old and 27.7% reported being raped or gang raped by their first trafficker as part of their grooming into the sex trafficking situation. To read more on these reports go to the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women website: https://humanservices.hawaii.gov/hscsw.