LOCAL TATTOO ARTISTS TRAINED TO LOOK FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING MARKINGS

Some of the most common are bar codes, initials and currency.

Executive Director for UnBound, Amanda Buenger, said that many times the tattoo can represent the relationship between the trafficker and its victim.

"Sometimes we see a certain tattoo with a certain name on it, or an identification that marks that they are linked to that individual who is trafficking them," Buenger said.

The currency marker is sued to symbolize how much the victims are worth.

"It can be bills, coins, money bags," Buenger said. "That's to signify the amount of money tattooed on the victim is the asking price."

Buenger said that for many of the victims, if their trafficker is isolating them, tattoo artists may be the only people they are allowed to see.

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