The truth is that child-sex-trafficking is extremely rare and that the average age of entry is seventeen. In other words, a few older teens are involved, mostly voluntarily, and it's really just under-aged prostitution and by under-aged I mean just barely under-aged, actually an age which would be completely legal in some jurisdictions! Just the same people obsess over the mostly imaginary problem. I had no idea how over-blown the moral panic had become, but it's apparently alive and well and fueling all sorts of dysfunctional beliefs based on fantasies of a worldwide conspiracy involving all sorts of rich and famous people.... or maybe one of your neighbors!
Anxiety about the nation’s children, which is at a steady simmer in the best of times, boiled over in the summer of 2020, when the digital soldiers of QAnon occupied the otherwise innocuous hashtag #SaveTheChildren. Around the same time, major social-media platforms had started blocking overt QAnon accounts and hashtags. From their new beachhead, the digital soldiers were able to disseminate a cascade of false information about child trafficking on Instagram and Facebook: Children were being trafficked on the hospital ship USNS Comfort, then docked in New York City, and through tunnels underneath Central Park.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/01/children-sex-trafficking-conspiracy-epidemic/620845/