Jane 1 is just one of an estimated 100,000 kids being used as prostitutes every year in America. Just over the summer, the FBI rescued 168 children who were being trafficked in dozens of cities from New York to Omaha to Minneapolis to Los Angeles.
"These are not faraway kids in faraway lands," FBI Director James Comey reportedly said. "These are America's children."
Many child sex trafficking victims are runaways, like Holly Austin Smith who met a man at a shopping mall who promised her work after she ran away from home at the age of 14. He brought her to a hotel. Within hours, she was being pimped on the streets of Atlantic City, Smith, now in her 30s, told the Associated Press in 2011.
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