 Hi, I'm Hanny Young and I'm Sammy Summer. Welcome to the Pasco Sheriff's Office student report. Today we continue our focus on human trafficking. Teens who are vulnerable are oftentimes coerced into an uncomfortable relationship and don't realize the dangers until it's too late. The predator may act like they care for you, and when they ask you for a favor, you think you don't have a choice, but that's not true. If you're not comfortable with something, you can say no. A lot of times the predators are seeking vulnerable kids online. They look for teens younger than 18 who have less life experience, so they're more easily manipulated. Teens whose accounts are set open to the public, and lastly, teens who are complaining online about their home life or openly talking about wanting to run away. Here's Justin with some tips to keep you safe on social media. Thanks Sammy. Make sure all of your social media accounts are set to private. Make sure your geotagging is turned off so that when it posts or shares something online, your location is not shared with it. Never accept a friend or follow a request from a person you do not know, even if you have mutual friends with them. If you don't know them, don't accept. Make sure that you don't complain about your parents or guardians online, because traffickers are looking for vulnerable teens to groom and entice to leave their homes. We leave you with some advice from Corporal Alan Wilkett, the head of the Pasco Sheriff's Office Human Trafficking Task Force. He shares why teen runaways are at a higher risk for human trafficking. Once a child or a minor runs to the street, they're now dependent on the street to sustain them. And so now the street looks at them and says, if I'm going to house you, if I'm going to feed you, if I'm going to give you transportation, then you're going to have to pay me back by some method. And many times that method is by commercial sex. And so now they're put out on a street track, they're put into a brothel, they're run out of a home, they're having survival sex just for a place to live. The vulnerabilities that were already there are magnified once they get out on the street. So a runaway becomes an absolute, easy target, vulnerable target for a trafficker as they put them out on the street.