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(More customer reviews)As Americans, we often hear stories of teenage girls & young women being trafficked into our country from Latin America & Eastern Europe. Yet the dirty little secret is most trafficked kids in our country are American-born- our daughters.
The author, a Canadian investigative journalist exposes this in his book. We are taken into a world of the child sex trade. One victim, a Latina the author calls "Maria" is a big focus in this book. Maria, a runaway who found herself going between Las Vegas & Atlantic City risked her own life to help the Feds take down her pimp. She was lucky to eventually get out as a some of teenage girls profiled here meet a tragic end.
The book is also critical of how the legal system treats prostitutes as opposed to some the European countries, which while legalize the trade also made it illegal to sell someone else's body for sex-thus making it easy to go after pimps. Whereas in America, we still focus too much on going after the prostitutes, rather than getting the johns & pimps that use them. & let's not talk about how our pop culture glorifies pimps (remember the Oscar winning song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp"?)
That said, this is a real page turner. At times chilling, esp. the accounts on how some of these girls got abused by their pimps. This book is a must read in order to understand the truth about child trafficking within our own borders.
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