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'It's Soul Crushing': Trafficking Victims Exploited Up and Down the East Coast – NBC Boston
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'It's Soul Crushing': Trafficking Victims Exploited Up and Down the East Coast – NBC Boston

They’re promised a better life – instead the victims of human trafficking are raped, beaten and tortured. Union Street in Lynn is known by advocates as an open-air market where women are sold for sex. Mary Speta, head of the nonprofit Amirah, is on a personal mission to help end the cycle of exploitation. “There…

Victim's Mother Shares Horrific Ordeal of Human Trafficking – NBC Boston
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Victim's Mother Shares Horrific Ordeal of Human Trafficking – NBC Boston

A teenager said she was drugged, sexually assaulted and trafficked after meeting a stranger on social media.  She’s one of the thousands of victims targeted across the country each year with cases happening behind closed doors in cities and small towns. The NBC10 Investigators spoke with the mother of the teen who survived this horrific…