No. Certain mythologies of child trafficking are, at least statistically, made up.

Those mythologies are used in many forms of conspiracy theories (typically from the Satanic Panic and its progeny).

I mean even the use of the word "child trafficking" is often mis-used. Child trafficking is typically forced labor, not sex. Children are 4x more likely to be trafficked for labor than sex. It gets even worse if you use "human trafficking" because only about 25-33% of the victims of that are children (and, again, it's primarily labor).

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The problem internationally is that these are operations of crime syndicates and warlords (think: Blood Diamond, which focused on child trafficking). Lots of overlap with the same organizations we are "fighting" in the War on Drugs. To really stop this activity (which goes back about as far as humans have lived in societies, if not longer), you have to fight it like the WOD...but in other countries. Since we've seen how great we've done with the WOD, it shouldn't inspire confidence.

The other solution is to enact trade and other policies to raise the standard of living in these areas. The problem with that set of policies, especially as it relates to certain populations dominant on this board, is that it doesn't exactly tie into "America First" principles, which reject free trade internationally and relying on the same populations being threatened with trafficking (who, I might add, are the illegal economic migrants flooding the southern border, often to avoid threats of being trafficked).

Domestically, we can probably do more, but it's still ultimately similar root causes (economic strife leading to social pathology that creates unsafe, abusive homes leading to runaways), mixed in with certain cultures rejecting LGBT children (again, creating runaways). These runaways are 14-17 and can't really work legally, so they are going to end up in the black market. Easiest job in that black market is prostitution (again, another meme as old as human society. This has been happening for 10k years).

We can combat domestic problems by trying to help runaways directly and hoping to get them in a stable situation off the streets and targeting the underlying causes of social pathologies that lead to the abusive homelives (Also remember, these children are often sexually abused prior to going to the streets and that's statistically likely to be a family member or friend of the family sexually abusing the child, not an international cabal of powerful people).

So, if people want to really discuss "human trafficking" and how we combat it beyond virtue signaling, I'm all ears.