Government Record · Deborah J. Daniels, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs · January 28, 2004

A 2004 Justice Department speech citing a National Institute of Justice estimate that more than 200,000 children are trafficked in the U.S. each year. A national estimate, not a count of Epstein's victims.

And our National Institute of Justice estimates that more than 200,000 children are trafficked within the United States each year for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation.