CWA fellow testifies before MD legislature about “sex trafficking”
From the CWA website:
Every year by estimates of the United States State Department, between 14,500 -17,000 children and women are brought into the United States for what the President has called "modern-day slavery." Some estimates run as high as 50,000 per year. Sex trafficking is a scourge that is little known among most Americans because it happens under the "radar" of public scrutiny and off the beaten pathways of polite society — primarily in the sleazy parts of our cities, on the side streets of our towns, in trailers off seldom-traveled rural roads, and in shacks located in isolated areas of the nation’s countryside. A 2001 report by Richard Estes and Neil Weiner at the University of Pennsylvania estimated 293,000 American youth are at risk of becoming victims of commercial sexual exploitation. Some of them are being exploited in Baltimore right off the I-95 highway.