Omaha Strip Clubs: Neb. conference to tackle human trafficking issue
… There are people in forced labor everywhere and in this country. It’s very invisible,” said Leslie Wolfe, president of the Center for Women Policy Studies. Wolfe is among the conference’s scheduled speakers.
The crime in the United States isn’t limited to border states or big cities, she said. Any place with a highway or an airport is vulnerable.
Nebraska isn’t immune, Hampton and Ball say.
Take the recent case of the 12-year-old Central American girl sold to a Mexican slave trader after her family left her in her uncle’s care, Hampton said. She landed in central Nebraska unable to speak English or trust anyone after she’d been raped and beaten in spirit along the way, he said.
In 2008, an Iowa court prosecuted its first human trafficking case — that of a man who recruited and harbored two Nebraska girls for commercial sexual activity, including prostitution and performing at strip clubs. Prosecutors said the girls, ages 15 and 16, were runaways.
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