Any time the public is given the idea that it's the responsibility of ordinary citizens to raise awareness of a particular type of crime, we should immediately be suspicious.

I think the anti-child-trafficking campaign has been building steam for while. The first step was conflating sex with someone with whom sex is illegal (aka statutory rape) with pedophilia, which is sexual attraction to/activity with children under the age of puberty. The latter is quite rare, and with so-called researchers like Kinsey trying to make every sort of perversion appear to be as common as they could, the percent of adults with sexual interest in children is still reported to be quite low - 1-5%. The other thing is that, from what I've read, the most common way of obtaining victims is not to rent a child from an international trafficking ring, but to buddy up to the adults in the target child's life.

"Sound of Freedom" uses a tagline that an ounce of cocaine can be sold once or twice, but a child 5 to 10 times per day. Part of the maneuvering that led to the creation of the FBI first bore fruit in the creation of the Mann Act, outlawing transport of women across state lines for immoral purposes. About 10 years, I did some research into Mann Act prosecutions, and I couldn't find any over a 60 year timeframe that led to the bust of a large-scale multi-state prostitution ring. Every arrest I found was some guy taking a girl other than his wife to a naughty weekend in another state.

What the prostitution/trafficking fearmongers want us to ignore is that prostitution is not a scaleable business model. To service more customers requires more people to do the servicing. In the early 20th century, it wasn't financially viable to transport prostitutes to other states - it was cheaper and easier to hire locals. Plus, what local procurer wants some procurer from another state muscling in o in his territory? The scaleability problem is the same today.

One last thing. Today's trafficking fearmongers have a new angle not available in the early 20th C - organ harvesting. What these people fail to understand is how difficult it it is to obtain good genetic matches for organ harvesting, even among blood relatives. People of mixed ethnic ancestry have an even harder time. Also, once someone receives an organ, the recipient must take anti-rejection drugs for life. How would one explain the need for such medications to a prescribing physician without medical records of a legally-obtained organ?

One would hope this moral panic would fall apart soon, but history suggests it will linger for quite a while.