Oakton Community College screening sex trafficking documentary
In recognition of National Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Oakton Community College will host screenings of the documentary "Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex Trafficking," Jan. 30 and Jan. 31.
Community leaders and activists will facilitate a discussion following the showing at the free public events.
The documentary will be shown 12:30-2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 30, Room 1610, at the Des Plaines campus, 1600 E. Golf Road, and 6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31, Room P103, 7701 N. Lincoln Ave., Skokie.
According to a recent University of Illinois at Chicago fact sheet, in the Chicago area, 16,000 to 25,000 women and girls are involved in the commercial sex trade annually, with one third of them first getting involved in prostitution by the age of 15 years and 62 percent by the age of 18.