Human trafficking is a heartbreaking threat to children and minors under 18, robbing them of their innocence and future. Worldwide, 25% of the 49.6 million victims are kids—young souls caught in a $236 billion nightmare (ILO, 2024). In the U.S., over 2,700 minors are identified as victims each year (Polaris, 2024), often lured from broken homes or online traps, with 25% of sex trafficking victims being children (National Human Trafficking Hotline, 2024). Traffickers prey on their trust, forcing them into sex work, grueling labor, or even organ theft, leaving scars that last a lifetime. The pain costs society $24 billion in healthcare (NIH, 2023), but the real toll is stolen childhoods—kids who should be playing, not suffering. With 27,000 runaways at risk (FBI NCIC, 2023) and 71% of U.S. labor trafficking victims being foreign minors (State, 2024), these vulnerable youth face a $150 billion sex trade machine (ILO, 2024) that fuels cartels and shatters communities. We must act swiftly with compassion and intelligence to save them.