October 9, 2013
Sometimes, kids who are victims are beaten into submission so badly and are fully under the trafficker’s control to the point where they are allowed to go home. Sometimes they go to school and they go back to the trafficker on their own. So what people need to look for are bruises and odd behavior. - Andrew Holmes, Community Activist
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Chicago is a High Intensity Child Prostitution Location
Law enforcement officials call it an “escalating threat” as children,”, some as young as nine, are lured and kidnapped into sex trafficking, the illegal trade of human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation or forced labor, often referred to as modern slavery.