Spotting the Signs & Preventing Child Sex Trafficking
A Theodore Talk Lecture Presented by Ransomed Life’s Brooke Bobo
Sunday afternoon August 24th, 2025, via Zoom at 2:30 pm
Child sex trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provisioning, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of a minor for the purpose of a commercial sex act. Traffickers target vulnerable children and gain control over them using a variety of manipulative methods. Victims frequently fall prey to traffickers who lure them in with an offer of food, clothes, attention, friendship, love, and a seemingly safe place to sleep. No child is immune to becoming a victim of child sex trafficking, regardless of the child’s race, age, socioeconomic status, or location, and every child involved in this form of commercial sexual exploitation is a victim.
This Theodore Talk lecture will focus on how children are lured into the dark world of sex trafficking and exploitation. Attendees will identify the dangers of technology including strategies used by child predators, discover how to identify a child in trouble, and learn some best practices on how to be a child’s trusted adult or a trusted child advocate.
Presenter Brooke Bobo is the Prevention Education Manager at Ransomed Life, a non-profit organization fighting child sex trafficking and exploitation in San Antonio, TX, and surrounding areas. Since 2015, Ransomed Life has trained and brought awareness to more than 90,000 community members, school staff workers, counselors, medical professionals, parents, and youth. Their goal is to see communities FREE from child exploitation through Prevention Education and providing Client Services for survivors, at-risk youth, and those families. Her presentation will cover the risks and realities of Human Trafficking with a focus on minor sex trafficking and online exploitation. This training will help adults understand the scope of the problem, how to report, and the hope Ransomed Life offers.
Ransomed Life offers hope to survivors and their families. You will learn to do the same.
Register for this presentation here: https://tinyurl.com/y5abfb9a.
Theodore Talks take place via Zoom on the fourth Sunday of each month at 2:30 pm Central Time. You can’t attend this Theodore Talk? Go ahead and register anyway; a link to the recording will be sent to you once the talk is over. All Theodore Talks have closed captioning enabled.
Remember, Mensa Theodore Talks are always offered FREE in an effort to provide more value for your Mensa membership.
A list of future Theodore Talks can be found on the Mensa National Events Calendar, by visiting the American Mensa homepage, or by viewing the article on 2025 Theodore Talks in the January issue of the Mensa Bulletin.
Questions? For more information, contact Brad Lucht.
