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Policy|January 12, 2024

Friday Facts: South Carolina (new series on Report Cards on Child and Youth Sex Trafficking)

Written by: Beth, California Ambassador of Hope

Friday Facts is a new series in which we will present a data point or bit of information from the latest set (2023) of Report Cards on Child and Youth Sex Trafficking. On every Friday this year, we will feature a fact from one state (or Washington, D.C.). During the course of 2024, we will walk through, in random order, all states plus the nation’s capital.

Facts for South Carolina:

  • Overall grade: D (in the middle tier of all states)
  • Between 2021-2023, the state raised its score by 5.5 points (on a 100-point scale).
  • The state prohibits the criminalization of child sex trafficking victims for sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation offenses committed as a result of their trafficking victimization.

See more about South Carolina’s grade on Shared Hope’s Report Cards on Child and Youth Sex Trafficking.