HNewsWire-More than 3,500 sex trafficking cases were reported to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center last year alone.  Americans care a lot about money. We talk about jobs and taxes and paychecks, but here’s what we don’t talk about: right here, in the United States, there is a thriving underground economy based on selling children for sex. If sex sells, then business is good. It was almost a billion dollars, according to an Urban Institute 2014 study. But these dirty profits come at a huge cost. Under federal law, anyone under 18 years of age-induced into commercial sex is a victim of sex trafficking — regardless of whether the trafficker uses force, fraud, or coercion. Sacharay’s exploiter eventually brought her and another teen to Atlanta, because he could command higher prices. According to a 2014 study by the Urban Institute, some … Continue reading Atlanta Is A ‘Hub’ For Child Sex Trafficking, Birth Pains