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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Thu Feb 11, 2016, 01:24 PM Feb 2016

Modern-day slavery even happens in Silicon Valley (xpost from GD)

http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_29502081/modern-day-slavery-even-happens-silicon-valley

As many teens do, B and her friends used to call up boys to be silly and flirt a bit.

But one day, after getting into an argument with her family, she called up a man she had met through a chat line and asked him to come pick her up from her suburban Sacramento neighborhood.

He did, and on that day B--not yet 16--lost her freedom.

The man held her captive inside a Bay Area apartment and forced her into prostitution the next two years.


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Modern-day slavery even happens in Silicon Valley (xpost from GD) (Original Post) KamaAina Feb 2016 OP
This a big problem all down the Central Valley. mackerel Feb 2016 #1
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