Commercial sexual exploitation of children

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Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) defines the "umbrella" of crimes and activities that involve inflicting sexual abuse onto a child as a financial or personal opportunity. Commercial sexual exploitation of children consists of forcing a child into prostitution, sex trafficking, early marriage, child sex tourism and any other venture of exploiting children into sexual activities. According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the lack of reporting the crime and "the difficulties associated with identifying and measuring victims and perpetrators" has made it almost impossible to create a national estimate of the prevalence of commercial sexual exploitation of children in the United States. There is an estimated one million children that are exploited for commercial sex globally; of the one million children that are exploited, the majority are girls.

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