Perhaps one of the most crucial ways we can target traffickers is to focus on the lifeblood of trafficking -- money. Traffickers recruit, transport, threaten and coerce other people into sex work or labor to profit off of them.
Read MoreDao’s virginity was sold before she had her first period. “I didn’t know what sex was,” she explains. “I had no education. I didn’t know what was happening — I was scared the first time.”
Read MoreThe lives of our clients and their families are forever impacted by the trauma of exploitation, but we have found that the financial and emotional significance of compensation helps them begin to heal. We also see judgments like this as a way to create criminal deterrence -- trafficking should never be profitable or tolerated.
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