Monday, December 8, 2008

Sex trafficking- in our own backyard


If you think sex trafficking only happens in Hong Kong, you're dead wrong. South Dakota has active prostitution rings forcing young girls into the destructive world of sexual trafficking. The article says:

Human trafficking has been an invisible trade here for years, with an untold number of victims, say national and regional experts and a South Dakota criminal investigator.

And, they add, it might be worse.

As neighboring states work to define and quantify the extent of the problem, experts say it is underreported and unstudied here, and the true extent of the sex trade in South Dakota remains largely unknown. It also is an act against which South Dakota has no specific law.


Read the story here.

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