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Orange County Escorts: CORONA: Human trafficking a reality in Inland area, expert says
January 28, 2012 | | Leave a Comment
Some of those victims were forced to work as domestic servants or peddlers, usually selling candy, magazines or cleaning products door-to-door or at shopping centers but not for an identifiable nonprofit or good cause, she said.
Although a few children and teens may sell candy or magazines to help support their families, others are trafficking victims, she said.
Eighty percent, however, are child commercial sexual exploitation cases, O’Farrell said.
Minors are identified as victims under federal law, she said, but the statistics reminds people that even for women, prostitution “wasn’t their dream job,” she said.
“For most of the girls, this is not what they thought they were getting into,” O’Farrell said. For most, a friend asked them to come to a party. Once there, their cellphones were taken away, they were separated from their friends and gang raped, she said.
Pimps come to the “rescue” of such girls in distress, she said.
See the full article from “Press-Enterprise”