Slavery in the U.S.

Posted by on Nov 16, 2009 in Slavery in the News | No Comments

Teen Girls’ Stories of Sex Trafficking in U.S.

From the ABC News

Fifteen-year-old “Debbie” is the middle child in a close-knit Air Force family from suburban Phoenix, and a straight-A student — the last person most of us would expect to be forced into the seamy world of sex trafficking.

But Debbie, which is not her real name, is one of thousands of young American girls who authorities say have been abducted or lured from their normal lives and made into sex slaves. While many Americans have heard of human trafficking in other parts of the world — Thailand, Cambodia, Latin America and eastern Europe, for example — few people know it happens here in the United States. …

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http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=1596778&page=1

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