[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - In 2010, 5,138 children were admitted to US ERs for sexual abuse
- By 2016, that number surged to 8,818, but the proportion of ER admissions was twice as high that year as in 2010
- The St Louis University study authors suggest that the rise has been driven by better awareness of childhood sexual abuse coupled with human trafficking
- Experts have called trafficking of children the fastest growing form of organized crime in the US