Though we may like to think that human trafficking is something that just happens in third world countries and really just anywhere other than where we live, the ugly truth is that human trafficking is a major issue right here in the Bay Area. Today we learned that human trafficking was not only a major problem in the past, such as in San Francisco in the 80's, but is also a huge issue today. For example, in October 10 people were charged for running a collection of 40 brothels throughout the Bay Area which employed women trafficked mostly from Asia. Another example would be the also relatively recent exposure of the story of a Los Altos High School alumni whose parents sold her to work in brothels in her free time away from school from the age of 10 up through college.
Based on these examples (and other information you can find from Sarah and Caitlin's website http://sarahmcallan6.wix.com/human-trafficking ), we can see that human trafficking is a major issue that not many people know about. What we need to do is bring light to the situation and find a way to end human trafficking for good, not only in the Bay Area, but throughout the world as well.
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