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You highlighted 4 areas. Let me address each one:

1) I don’t care about “at risk”. That’s vague. And it is a classic trick that is used to inflate numbers.
2) Number of victimized children is hard to know. BINGO!
3) 40,000 will have some brush with sexual trafficking. Again, too vague to be useful. I’m reminded of the astronomical numbers of college girls who are raped each year. Rape being defined so broadly that a girl who is kissed by a boy she doesn’t like has been “raped”.
4) Again, the number is hard to know. BINGO!

At most – AT MOST! – this citation allows one to speculate about 40,000 victims. Yet you read this and conclude that the concerns about 100,00 victims may be reasonable.

IMO, it’s all crap and free-mongering. No offense meant to you.

No offense taken. I'm just saying that one number presented (from 2002) suggests 40,000. Earlier on in the report they make an estimate at 300,000-800,000. I'm just suggesting that because of the "invisiblity" due to the internet and cell phones, etc, the number could be reasonably estimated at 100,000 in today's terms. It's an estimation in any case.

Believe me, I understand that you can make numbers/statistics say anything you want them to. Whatever the real numbers are on the situation, I think this must be prevalent *enough* to be a concern to parents and children. We live in a sick society. This is just another reminder of the weirdos and perverts out there, at least to me. It is a reminder to go over safety *rules* with my kids. Nothing more. I take it like it's a public service announcement. I'm not panicking, just trying to be aware and prepare the best I can.

At most – AT MOST! – this citation allows one to speculate about 40,000 victims. Yet you read this and conclude that the concerns about 100,00 victims may be reasonable. IMO, it’s all crap and free-mongering. No offense meant to you.

And... only 40,000 would be OK with you???? Just how big does the number of victims have to be before you would become concerned? We're talking about children here. People who want to bury their heads in the sand and only care to do anything when an issue affects them personally troubles me almost as much as these creeps who do these things to children.

Not caring about "at risk" children tells me that you don't want to do anything to prevent this problem. The entire society is at risk when we are raising a generation of youth with deteriorating moral and ethical values only to pile on sexual and physical abuse. This country is following the rest of the world right down the proverbial toilet because of people who think that this is OK. No offense meant to you.