Sex Trafficking in the U.S.
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The U.S. State Department says up to 17-thousand women and children are brought into the U.S. each year in a form of modern day slavery – primarily for sexual purposes. But that’s only 10-percent of the trafficking problem. Host Peggy Wehmeyer talks with former Congresswoman Linda Smith who says thousands of young girls already living in the U.S. also are being duped into the sex trade – primarily through the internet. Smith heads the organization “Shared Hope International” which found two-million sex sites on the internet, 5,000 of them dealing in child pornography.
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Shared Hope Website
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