Slavery is NOT dead...........and it is happening here.........well u ask..........why don't the kids speak up...........?  B/c the guys living with them probably tell them should they speak up.......that they would kill the kids.............and maybe to prove that they are not bluffing.........they kill someone...............like the kid soldiers in Africa.................the war lord kills a kid every once in awhile to prove that they are not bluffing..

Slavery is alive and well in the land of the free. With human trafficking now a multi-billion-dollar industry worldwide and cases increasing in the United States, activists are trying to squash the myth that most women who work as prostitutes do so because they want to.

“Prostitution isn’t people deferring entrance to Yale while they prostitute to raise money for tuition—that’s not the reality of what it looks like,” said Nicole Bell, who worked as a prostitute after being trafficked as a teen. “We’re looking at people in poverty, people of color, people coming out of the foster care system.”

Bell, who spoke alongside a panel of activists at the Women in the World Summit in Manhattan Friday, is now the founder and CEO of Living in Freedom Together (LIFT), a survivor-led organization that helps individuals exit the world of commercial sexual exploitation