![]() ![]() ![]() A few hundred children is still a few hundred too many, but they will not be helped by thousand-fold inflation of their numbers. When three reporters from the Village Voice questioned Estes on the number of children who are abducted and pressed into sexual slavery each year, he replied, “We’re talking about a few hundred people.” And this number is likely to include a lot of boys: According to a 2008 census of underage prostitutes in New York City, nearly half turned out to be male. But their 100,000–300,000 estimate referred to children at risk for exploitation-not actual victims. The source for the figure is a 2001 report on child sexual exploitation by University of Pennsylvania sociologists Richard Estes and Neil Alan Weiner. ![]()
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