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Although mentioned a few months ago, cases of missing children continue to grow in the Rohingya community in Bangladesh with more than 900,000 refugees. Their disappearances are thought to be linked to human trafficking although hard to find evidence for.

Many families are left confused and traumatized with only memories of their children. They can't ask for help because the authorities won't let them out of the camp.

Organizations such as UNICEF work to educate kids and parents living in the Rohingya community on prevention of trafficking as it is high risk in the area.

From 2017 to now, cases in the UK have gone up by 800%.

With more cases of missing and/or trafficked children popping up, more police worked to try and solve their cases by finding the trafficked victims. 51 Police were working on these cases in 2017. Now, around 500 police are working on similar cases.

"Overall, the number of police investigations involving modern slavery has more than doubled over the last year and has grown by more than 350 per cent since April 2017, according to the report."

Many children are often trafficked into the UK from different countries such as Vietnam, Albania, Romania and France.