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With massage parlors unlicensed, human trafficking is difficult to police
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With massage parlors unlicensed, human trafficking is difficult to police

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Federal law enforcement officers have discovered illicit massage parlors in every New Hampshire county, with victims of human trafficking being forced to have sex with customers. The National Human Trafficking Hotline identified 75 victims in New Hampshire in 2021, most involving sex in illicit massage parlors and spas. Law enforcement officers say the state’s lax…

Enhancing the fight against human trafficking in the Granite State
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Enhancing the fight against human trafficking in the Granite State

ByEyes on Trafficking News

   Darlene Pawlik vividly remembers the moment her 14-year-old self was taken to Plaistow, N.H., by a physician – not for medical treatment, but for sex. Pawlik had just been bought by this older man. “So, why are you doing this?” he asked. “Uh – just bored, nothing else to do,” Pawlik said. But it was not boredom that…