Phil Gazley
Kern Coalition Against Human
Trafficking
Trafficking Hotline 1.888.373. 7888
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Introduction to KCAHT
Kern Coalition Against Human Trafficking (KCAHT) is a grassroots coalition that was created to facilitate a comprehensive approach to combat human trafficking in Kern County through prevention, protection, prosecution and partnerships.
• Started in 2012
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Four arrests and one conviction in 2013 with 14 victims served
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In 2014 over 25 victims served . Over 10 victims served in 2015
The coalition members aim to
 Provide victim services
 Actively encourage a victim centered and evidence based approach that results in effective protection and prosecution.
 Raise public awareness through events and media
 Provide prevention to vulnerable communities
 Provide and facilitate training for Law Enforcement, Health Care
Providers, service providers and other interested parties
 Perform community outreach to relevant populations

• Pimping – Fake boyfriends
• Recruiting – Group Homes
• Survivor sex perceptions
• Labor and crews
• Union Ave
• Online
• Drug trade
• Get involved Get training Call the hotline
• Come to meetings Raise awareness

ORGANIZATIONAL CHART
Steering Committee
Homeland Security
Bakersfield Police Dept
Dept of Human Services
Victim Services Committee
AAFVSA: Alliance Against Family
Violence and Sexual Assault
International Institute of Los Angeles
Greater Bakersfield Legal Assistnace
Magdalene Hope
Runaway Girl
Kern County Child Protective Services
Kern Children's Network
Kern County Mental Health
Kern County Public Health
Key Partners and Stakeholders
Kern County Sheriff's Dept High Desert Women's Center
Alliance Against Family Violence and Sexual Assault Runaway Girl
International Institute of Los Angeles
Greater Bakersfield Legal Assistnace
Public Awareness
Committee
Magdalene Hope
St Pauls Episcopal Church
Runaway Girl
Youth With a Mission
Catholic Diocese of Fresno
CSUB
Fellowship Baptist
Junior League
Law Enforcement and
CA Highway Patrol
Equal Employment Opportunities
Faith Based Group
Legal Services Committee
Homeland Security
Bakersfield Police Dept
Kern County Sheriff's Dept
(Focuses on long term needs of victims & survivors)
Fellowship Baptist
St. Paul Episcopal
Greater Bakersfield Legal Assistance First Presbytarian
Diocese of Fresno
Magdalene Hope
Bethany Ministries
St. Paul Episcopal
Mill Creek Christian

• A form of modern-day slavery
• Involves the exploitation of persons for commercial sex or forced labor
• Victims may be illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, or
U.S. citizens (homeless, substance-addicted persons, or teenage runaways)
• Often involves crossing an international border but does not require moving a victim
• Traffickers use force, fraud, or coercion to control their victims
• Can be prosecuted on a variety of grounds
• Labor and commercial sex
• Domestic and international

• FORCE – Physical Assault, Sexual Assault,
Rape, Confinement, Isolation
• FRAUD – Fraudulent offers of employment; False promises of employment or living conditions;
Withholding wages
• COERCION – Threats to life, safety, family members, or others; Threats of deportation or arrest, Debt Bondage; Withholding legal documents or ID’s; Psychological Manipulation

• People trafficked worldwide annually could be in the millions
• Estimated 17,000 persons trafficked annually into the U.S.
• Cases have been investigated in
50 states and in Canada
• Approx 29.3 million people held in slavery worldwide
(Global Slavery Index)

Commercial
Commercial Forced Forced
Sex Sex
Labor Labor
Domestic
Adult
Foreign
National
Domestic
Adult
Foreign
National
Adult
Adult
Commercial
Sex
Domestic
Minor
Commercial
Sex
Foreign Nat
Minor
Forced
Labor
Domestic
Minor
Forced
Labor
Foreign Nat
Minor

• Prostitution
• Exotic dancing
• Servile marriages
• Agricultural work
• Landscape work
• Domestic work and child care (“domestic servitude”)
• Factory work
• Personal sexual exploitation
• Begging/street peddling
• Restaurant work
• Construction work
• Carnival work
• Hotel housekeeping
• Criminal activities
• Day labor
• Massage parlors
Labor and Commercial Sex
Domestic and International

• Most victims are US citizens and residents
• Some foreign nationals are illegal and fear U.S. authorities
– Traffickers exploit this fear
• Victims may be physically isolated or guarded; others are held through psychological coercion
• Many victims do not speak English
• Many victims have no idea where they are in the U.S. and face tremendous cultural barriers
• Many do not realize that they are victims or that they have rights under U.S. law

Traffickers Use Multiple Means to Control Their Victims
• Beatings, burnings, rapes, and starvation
• Isolation
• Psychological abuses
• Drug dependency
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Document withholding
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Debt bondage
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Threats of deportation
• Threats against the victim’s family or friends in his/her home country

• Buildings – Keep people in or out?
• Type of work?
• Hours worked?
• Freedom of movement or threats?
• Own ID? Food, housing, clothing, shelter?
• Hesitant to talk?
• Sex industry?
• Good questions?
• Whole communities?
• Under 18?
• Undocumented?
• Fear of authorities
• Ability in job?
• Communal housing and transportation?
• Strong defense of a particular person?
• Chaperoned shopping?

• Recruitment by:
– Boyfriend, Family Member, Friends
– False Employment – modeling, singing, dancing
– Schools, malls, parks, youth shelters, group homes
• Victim Abuse and Trauma:
– Psychological, Emotional, Physical, Sexual
– Isolation, Manipulation, Threats
– Trauma Bond

The pimp is a cultural icon, business man, and revered capitalist.
The female is a prostitute by choice and leads a glamorous life in which she enjoys both her trade and the benefits of her trade.

The pimp is a criminal. Often a gang member, he is exploiting younger and younger women and girls in more dangerous and violent ways.
She is often exploited by force and manipulation. Lured into the game and quickly too broken down to escape.

An expressed interest in or relationships with adults or older men
Inconsistencies in their story about where they stay or who there guardian is
Frequenting of internet chat rooms or websites such as Craigslist or Backpage
Constant communication with multiple men or evidence in phone of names and dollar amounts
Unexplained shopping trips or possession of expensive clothing, jewelry, cell phone
Use of lingo or slang from the “life”
Reluctance to explain a tattoo or branding
Keeping late nights or unusual hours and vagueness of whereabouts

• Stable –
Group of girls that are controlled and trafficked by a pimp .
• Daddy, Mommy, Folks
• Bottom bitch –
Main girl in stable. Receives most “positive” attention. Pimps play girls against each other as competition for role.
• Boss –
Third party (usually charges girls more than regular rate)

• Trap –
Quota
• Uniform
- R evealing clothes to draw in customers
• Track –
“Hoe Stroe”; usually specific neighborhood area
• Knocking –
Recruiting
• Renegade –
Working for oneself (young girls do not renegade, they do not have the ability to challenge the game)
• In Pocket
– staying within the rules of the game (they change to keep girls on edge); no eye contact with other pimps; pimps up/hoes down

• Quota of 5 customers/night or $500 -
$1000/night
• ♀ x ♂ ♂ ♂ ♂ ♂ per day x 6 days/week x 1 year
• = 1,560 forced sexual encounters per year

• Pimp, Boyfriend, Family Member
• ♀ x $500 quota per night, 6 nights a week =
$156,000 a year
• ♀♀♀ = $468,000 per year

Limited familial support or limited contact with family/friends
False promises of protection – to love like family they don’t have
Loyalty or traumatic attachment to trafficker
Lack of resources available while living on the streets
Normalization of sex trafficking as survival on the streets
Increased fear/distrust of adults
Juvenile arrests for prostitution – treated as criminal
Distrust of service providers/law enforcement
Feeling that no one will understand
Fear of judgment from peers
Transient nature – no established roots with schools/service providers
Lack of access to money to afford a means to leave

• What city are you in right now?
• How did you get here?
• What is your cell phone number?
• Where do you live, eat and sleep?
• Do you owe someone money?
• Is someone keeping your legal/travel documents?
• Were you threatened if you tried to leave?
• Has your family been threatened?
• Were you ever physically abused?
• Were you ever forced to stay in one place?
• Who are you afraid of?
• Have you ever provided oral sex or sex for money or a place to stay?
• Do you have any tattoos? What is their meaning? Who did them?
• Labor – Have you paid out money to do a job
• Have you been forced to sell anything?
• Where are the others you are working with?

• Conversation – NOT Interview
• Reassure the Potential Victim
– You are there to help and you care about them
– You are not trying to punish or judge
• Build Trust
– Expect lies and canned stories
– It may take several encounters to build trust
• Be Conscious
– Be careful how you refer to the potential trafficker – refer to them as victim does
– Avoid using derogatory terms such as prostitute
– Keep in mind that victims do not self-identify as victims of trafficking
– Your body language and facial expressions
• Remain Sensitive to Power Dynamics
– One on one encounters are ideal especially when trafficker is insisting on being present.
– Separate victim from potential trafficker

• Nature of Protocols
• Shelter
• SART
• Law Enforcement and victim advocates
• Transportation of victims
• Safety considerations Example Bakersfield and
Union
• Long term services

• May not identify themselves as victims
• May not speak local language
• Likely to lie or use rehearsed stories initially
• May be behaviorally dependent on trafficker
• Cultural or religious background may deter victims from telling the full story
• Victims may be reluctant to speak to someone wearing a gun, badge, or uniform—may be culturally conditioned to fear law enforcement

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• Victim should be given a choice of speaking with male or female investigators, counselors and advocates
• Victim may not want family to know of his/her circumstances
• Victim may exhibit
– “Stockholm Syndrome” behavior
– Empathy for traffickers
• How and why victim’s story may change
• Safety of the victim’s family in the home country

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• Emergency, Transitional, and Long-term housing
Legal services
• Employment assistance
• Interpretation/translation
(if foreign)
• Medical/mental health services and dental
• Protection/safety planning
• Social service advocacy
Clothing and food
• Transportation
Crisis intervention
Emotional support and counseling
• Literacy education (school,
G.E.D.)
• Basic Needs Fund
• Interpreters

Inter-Connected and Parallel
Issues/Movements – The Place of NGO’s
• Domestic Violence
• Sexual Assault
• Pornography
• Child Abuse
• Gender Violence
• Homelessness
• Substance Abuse
• Poverty
• Family Violence and
Conflict
• Migration
• Business Practices
• Sub-contracting
• Civil Wars and
Conflict
• Child Labor
• Consumer Demands and Choices

• International
• Law Enforcement,
Attorneys
• KCAHT
• Women’s Center
• Alliance
• Public Health and Mental
Health
• T Visa – GBLA
• Legal Cooperation
• Regular Refugee Services
• Domestic
• Magdalene Hope
• CPS
• Basic Needs
• Law Enforcement and
Attorneys
• Health/Mental Health
• Legal Cooperation
• Family Reunification
• Situation for Minors

• Resource guide
• Outreach in rural areas
– Survivor stories from rural areas
• Further protocol for health services in
ER/SART/etc
• Prevention training/outreach continuation
• Event planning for awareness (upcoming)
• Digital billboard for advertising events and other KCAHT activities

• DVD of Trafficked Life documentary to high schools
– Continuation schools, other HS
• DVD for training for all local law enforcement
• Large case protocol clarity
• Further development of longer term services
• Great victim ID of foreign national victims
• Engagement with forced labor

• High school presentations on a wider level
• Further development of survivor group
• Development of law enforcement task force

What you can do -General
Research
- Outreach (LGBT)
Research
- Focus Groups and CN A’s
Education and Awareness – Spread the word
Advocacy
- Corporate and Legal
Media
- Press, Arts, Music Film Etc

• Address sexual addiction in relevant communities
• Outreach to at risk youth
• Join our public awareness group
• Reach parents – Mandated parenting classes and foster parents
• Help us become county wide
• Call the hotline
• Remember root causes and parallel movements
• Ask questions!
• Advocate: Local and global, thecode.org
• Encourage creativity in the home
• Become a foster parent.
• Volunteer and mentor

Our Challenges and Solutions For DMST
• Solutions
• Challenges
• City ordinance review
• Money paid by “John’s”
• Foster Care modeled on
• Teens leaving Centers and
URM
Group Homes
• Foster care vulnerability
• Prevention including Foster
• Mindset of some LE
Parents
• Recruiting and drugs in
• Ongoing CPS training and group homes prevention program
• Community awareness • Victim Impact Panel
• Visiting complexity • Strategic and
• Addressing Labor issues comprehensive partnerships
Including Schools

What we can do – Kern County
• Phil’s top ten
• The 4P’s
• Employ victims and survivors
• Become a Foster Parent
• Get to know people in the field and ask where the gaps are
• Do a CNA
• Increase strategic outreach to at risk youth – Including LGBT
• Focus on families – creativity, intimacy, workaholics
• Sexual addiction in culture
• Post victim services and a survivor
• informed movement
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• Never stop working for a victim
• centered approach

11 Discussion Points Regarding Minors
1. Foster care
2. Group home safety/separate wings
3. 21 day shelter
4. Out of county referral
5. URM
6. 6 hour – victim advocates
7. Probation victim advocate
8. CPS victim advocate john ’ s sting
9. Successful child welfare dialogue
10. Expunging charges
11. RTF ’ s and RTC ’ s that are secure facilities

• What to look for:
• Sex Trade
• Being told, “This is the only way you will make a lot of money”.
• Family members making decisions for other family members that are inappropriate
• You are offered a job based solely on appearance
• Promises of transportation and work to other cities by
“Distant relatives”
• A boy who suddenly falls madly in love with you, giving you gifts and praising your beauty, though he does not know you well.
• A boyfriend who promises you your life will be perfect in another place

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What to look for
• Labor:
• If someone wants to take and keep your documents
• If someone wants you to give them money for you to work for them
• If someone is pressuring you to work for them
• There are no details on paper
• You have to agree to the job verbally
• Promises are being made of large amounts of money

• "For it is not light that is needed, but fire, it is not a gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced."

Phil Gazley - KCAHT
YWAM City Ministries International
Cell: 303-261-2948
E mail: philgazley@gmail.com
www.kcaht.org