Senate bill defines sex trafficking as child abuse

Chris Engel 6/12/131:00 PM

"In much of the country today if a girl is found in the custody of a so-called pimp she is not considered to be a victim of abuse, and that's just wrong and defies common sense," Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said during a Senate Finance Committee hearing Tuesday, where lawmakers heard a 25-year-old woman recount how the child welfare system failed her nearly a decade earlier...."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20130611/us-child-prostitutes/

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