Published figure

61%

Of 616 U.S. hotline cases (2007–2016) involving sexually explicit digital content, the people exploited were minors. Remote interactive sexual acts (webcams, paid chats) were a separate trafficking type in the same analysis.

What this number is

In the subset of U.S. hotline cases that involved sexually explicit digital content, most of the people exploited were minors. Webcam and paid-chat exploitation was classified separately as remote interactive sexual acts.

Caveats

616 cases is a slice of hotline data, not all trafficking. Digital-content cases may over-represent people whose exploitation left a file. It still does not tell you the size of the illegal market.

Why this matters for the pledge

The crime Thorn fights lives in files. Launch pledges fund detection and investigator tools so those files get flagged and children get found.