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Fighting Human Trafficking in Georgia

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    Authorities battle against lucrative crime

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We -- thirteen out who.

Had been approached.

Him.

Wife and mother of three -- -- ahead.

Used to live a very different life.

I knew my predator was a monster I -- my molesters what the monster.

I knew that these people are monsters.

At only sixteen.

She was bought and sold for sex.

Act like millions of other she was a prisoner.

Forced into prostitution and threatened if she ever tried to leave.

This is a very traumatic.

Situation.

And but when still live my life was endangered.

The life of my loved ones was in danger.

I really lost myself because I knew had to do whatever I had to do to survive.

Now she's working with the grassroots group in Atlanta.

Trying to rescue other victims of human trafficking.

What I did not know that a normal average -- who was a preacher who was a lawyer who was a senator.

We have to stop to me this is a very lucrative business so we have to look at the class -- to make.

The governor's office estimates that more than 400.

Girls are sold for sex in Georgia every month.

Almost all of them in Atlanta.

Atlanta is one of fourteen cities in the United States that is the highest in terms of child prostitution and sexual exploitation.

If it's a major transportation hub not just domestically but internationally.

Home to the busiest airport in the world.

And massive interstate system and booming convention business it's known as the US hub for human trafficking.

Federal authorities are now working with local police to stop it.

It's just stupid and atrocity I mean it's modern day slavery is what's going on here every single day making them aware.

When it commercial sexual exploitation really is in Atlanta Elizabeth Tran Fox News.

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