Hope Amid the Horror for the Underage Girls of Mexico's Burgeoning Sex Trade Nadia Whitehead - NPR.org
go to original October 21, 2015

In the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, women are being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. DW talks to parents desperate to find their children, to survivors, and to authorities, whom many accuse of not doing enough to stop the crimes. (Deutsche Welle)

The report that ISIS is forcing girls as young as 12 to become sex slaves is part of a larger issue. In the world today, an estimated 2 million underage girls work in the sex trade.

A new study details the situation in Mexico, where researchers found that one in four sex workers in Tijuana and Juarez say they were forced into the sex trade as minors — under age 18 — and one in eight say they were 15 or younger.

The findings of the researchers are as bleak as you'd expect, perhaps even more so. But they did offer a glimmer of hope when they referred me to Alma Tucker, who runs a safe house for underage victims of sex trafficking in Tijuana.

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