Kori LeCompte
LAFAYETTE, LA (NBC33) — You might think human trafficking only happens in other countries, but it’s happening here in the United States and right here in Louisiana.
“Human trafficking is happening in your subdivision, my subdivision, in apartment complexes and everybody is unaware of it.” State Representative Valerie Hodges said.
The numbers are staggering.
“27 million people are currently enslaved,” Natalie LaBorde, co-founder of Tigers Against Trafficking, said. “90 percent of those are women and children in the form of sex slavery. It took me by surprise, because I was very taken back by the scenario in thinking ‘How can this exist now in the 21st century?'”
Representative Hodges notes that children are often the target of this illegal industry.
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