Nicole Barrett, a UBC law professor and human-trafficking expert, was interviewed by Global News for a story on human trafficking statistics in Canada.
Statistics Canada found that minors make up about one quarter of forced labour victims or sex trafficking crimes, and account for about seven per cent of the perpetrators.
“It is kids,” she said “I wasn’t surprised by the youth of the victims (in the Statistics Canada study), but by the youth of the perpetrators … in my mind, that wasn’t the picture that I had.”
