Yale Daily News: State subcommittee strives to support girls in juvenile justice system

Erin Williamson, Chief Programs and Strategy Officer at Love146 and a member of the work group, said over 90 percent of the child trafficking survivors in the organization’s programs are female. 

“I firmly believe that we are under-identifying male and nonbinary youth, and I think that that is largely because as a society, we don’t tend to acknowledge sexual victimization among boys and men,” Williamson said. “Our default is to think, ‘Oh, they might have been engaging in some sort of criminal activity,’ as opposed to ‘they may be a victim of a sexual crime or a labor crime.’”