Traffickers are using apps and games to exploit children—right now.
Hope for Justice is fighting back with prevention, outreach, and survivor care. But we need your help.
Help Keep kids SAFE
Help Keep kids SAFE
Hope for Justice trains families, equips communities, identifies victims, and restores lives. Your monthly gift helps give children the freedom to be safe—online and beyond.
Hope for Justice trains families, equips communities, identifies victims, and restores lives. This summer, your gift helps give children the freedom to be safe—online and beyond.
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With your gift, together we can:
- Educate children and caregivers with tools to stay safe online.
- Provide crisis intervention for families when a child is at risk.
- Train schools, churches, and communities to recognize signs of grooming.
- Push for stronger digital protections on the platforms where exploitation begins.
- Support law enforcement investigations and survivor recovery.
Identifying Victims 
Our investigators and outreach teams work with police and other agencies to identify victims of human trafficking and modern slavery, build bridges of trust with them and get them safely out of exploitation.
Supporting Survivors
We provide world-class survivor aftercare, both residential and non-residential. Our independent advocacy ensures needs are met and gives the best chance for justice to be done.
Preventing Exploitation
Through education and community empowerment, we help families and vulnerable people protect themselves against traffickers and the deceptive methods they use to control others.
Making An Impact
We train others on the front line – police, healthcare workers, charities and many more – to spot the signs of modern slavery and to respond effectively. We work with governments and businesses to make change happen.
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Facts about internet safety:
This summer, children will spend significantly more time online: an average increase of over four hours per day compared to the school year. And for many, that time is unsupervised. Predators are watching. And they’re ready to take advantage. Here are some facts about internet safety that parents should know:
Snapchat, Discord, Instagram, and TikTok are among the top apps used by predators to initiate contact with children, often via disappearing messages, location tracking, and anonymous chat features. Snapchat was the most common platform used in UK online grooming crimes against children last year (48%), followed by WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram (NSPCC). In the U.S., 92% of teens report going online daily, and 89% use at least one of the most popular social media platforms (Pew Research).
Globally, 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 13 boys have been sexually exploited before reaching age 18, with research suggesting online interaction is a feature of “almost all” of these cases (UNICEF).
A survey of 6,000 teachers found that 71% knew of children under 13 using social media platforms and rising concern about abuse and the malicious use of ‘deepfakes’ on social media platforms (ASCL, March 2025). This type of online exploitation and the threat of explicit images being shared, both real and deepfakes, is a method that traffickers often use to coerce and blackmail their victims.
For many children, online exploitation is the first step into trafficking. With your gift, our award-winning Keeping Kids Safe In the Digital World online courses can reach more parents, schools and caregivers, and more survivors can get the care and support they need.
Online grooming:
Hope for Justice shares facts about online grooming because we know it is closely linked to trafficking that then moves from the digital world to the physical world. Here are some facts about online grooming:
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) estimates that 88% of their 9,800 reports of child sex trafficking each year involve a child being trafficked online.
Only 49% of minors disclose online exploitation or online sexual extortion to family or friends. Even fewer (13%) report it to the authorities. Victims said they did not want to report it because of feelings of shame, embarrassment, fear of retribution, or a sense it simply would not do any good. (Wendy A. Walsh & Dr. Dafna Tener (2022) “If you don’t send me five other pictures I am going to post the photo online”: A qualitative analysis of experiences of survivors of sextortion, Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 31:4, 447-465)
F.B.I.’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (2021) reported a 99.95% increase in internet-based crimes against children online in 2022 compared to 2019.
Research suggests the age range targeted most heavily by online predators is girls aged 12-14, due to perceived vulnerability and openness to suggestion from older males (Tidball, Sriyani; Zheng, Mingying; and Creswell, John W., “Buying Sex On-Line from Girls: NGO Representatives, Law Enforcement Officials, and Public Officials Speak out About Human Trafficking—A Qualitative Analysis” (2016).)
Keeping Kids Safe in the Digital World:
Your gift today will help fund the technology, training, and emergency response needed to protect children. It powers real-time investigations. It delivers education and prevention to families. It brings hope and healing after unimaginable trauma. Please, make a gift today. Help us stop grooming before it starts. Help us bring more children home.
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