A Look At The Number That Launched A Fleet Of Anti-Sex Trafficking Buses

Organizers of an Atlanta event meant to highlight the scope of the child sex trafficking problem in Georgia used 72 school buses to represent what they say is the number of trafficked children in the state.

To raise awareness, the buses were driven through Atlanta covered in anti-trafficking advocacy messages as, “a mile-long moving billboard,” according to the group that helped organize the event, Street Grace.

While experts and officials agree child sex trafficking is a horrific problem, the number at the heart of the event –3,600 Georgia children trafficked each year — is from a report that is almost a decade old. And the way the data was gathered?