Sex trafficking: Dark side of the Super Bowl
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DALLAS — As thousands of fans flood to Dallas for this weekend’s Super Bowl, young girls are being forcibly brought to the city to participate in a game that has nothing to do with American football.
Police and women’s groups have joined together to clamp down on what they fear will be rampant sex trafficking, a modern form of slavery involving pimps selling girls and young women who have been coerced into prostitution.
Dallas Cowboy Jay Ratliff joined the campaign by starring in a public service announcement ahead of Sunday’s game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers.
“If you’re one of these men buying these young girls, I’m telling you that real men don’t buy children. They don’t buy sex,” Ratliff says in the announcement..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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