Child Sex Slaves In Louisiana
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Shared Hope International
La. sex trafficking targeted
By KIMBERLY VETTER AND STEVEN WARD
Advocate staff writers
Published: Jun 18, 2008 - Page: 1B - UPDATED: 12:05 a.m.
Girls and boys are being sold for sex in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, a federally funded report released Tuesday says, even though no one yet has been charged in Louisiana under federal or state sex-trafficking laws.
The problem intensified in the days after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, with relief workers soliciting the services of the enslaved children, the report says.
State and nonprofit agencies have served at least 100 victims of sex trafficking in the area since 2006, says the report, conducted by the nonprofit Shared Hope International.
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Shared Hope International
La. sex trafficking targeted
By KIMBERLY VETTER AND STEVEN WARD
Advocate staff writers
Published: Jun 18, 2008 - Page: 1B - UPDATED: 12:05 a.m.
Girls and boys are being sold for sex in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, a federally funded report released Tuesday says, even though no one yet has been charged in Louisiana under federal or state sex-trafficking laws.
The problem intensified in the days after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, with relief workers soliciting the services of the enslaved children, the report says.
State and nonprofit agencies have served at least 100 victims of sex trafficking in the area since 2006, says the report, conducted by the nonprofit Shared Hope International.
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