“…Adverse childhood experiences are common among sex trafficked youth (Naramore, Bright, Epps, & Hardt, 2017 ). One study of trafficked youth participating in a specialty court reported that 92% of the sample had a child abuse report investigated and substantiated by child protective services (Cook, Barnert, Ijadi-Maghsoodi, Ports, & Bath, 2018 ). Several studies of justice-involved youth investigate differences in adverse childhood experiences between those who had been trafficked versus those who had not been trafficked and found that those who had been trafficked had higher odds of physical and sexual abuse, higher odds of emotional and physical neglect as well as family violence, compared to those with no trafficking history (Cole, Sprang, Lee, & Cohen, 2014 ; Reid, Baglivio, Piquero, Greenwald, & Epps, 2017 ; Wilson & Widom, 2010 ).…”