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Selling Girls

This suburban dad paid for sex with 25 girls. Why?

Selling Girls

She vanished right near the local high school; then she was sold for sex

"You won’t want me anymore. I’m so dirty. I’m so dirty, mama. You won’t want me anymore.”
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'Selling Girls' investigation to be featured on 'Megyn Kelly TODAY'

Tuesday's episode of 'Megyn Kelly TODAY' will feature reporting on the epidemic of sex trafficking in the United States, interviews with a survivor, and a man who admits to being a buyer.
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Selling Girls | Sex traffickers are targeting American children

Sex trafficking is a billion-dollar-a-year industry in the U.S. And traffickers are preying on young girls across the nation — our daughters, sisters and friends — right in our backyards.
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Saving Girls | Teens are being bought and sold for sex, but you can help

Underage girls are being sold in America. Let’s change the topic of conversation from Selling Girls to Saving them.
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IN PLAIN SIGHT: Investigator lifts curtain on child sex trafficking on the First Coast

Drugs, women and little girls are just some of what can be purchased at various hotels across the First Coast. An investigator takes us into the sex trafficking underworld of Jacksonville.
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Ride-along with investigator of child sex trafficking

This is the route First Coast News followed while riding with a private investigator who looks for young girls who are being exploited for sex.
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Ride-along with investigator of child sex trafficking

This is the route First Coast News followed while riding with a private investigator who looks for young girls who are being exploited for sex.
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Sex trafficking prevalent during Florida-Georgia weekend

The Florida-Georgia battle is a tradition that dates back to 1933. Going on around it for just as many years has been a different kind of battle, one in which young women are losing in an unfair game.
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Duval County ranks No. 5 for sex trafficking cases in Florida

Duval County is ranked fifth for the number of positively identified cases involving commercially sexually exploited children, according to a state organization aimed at conquering the sex trade.
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Florida State Attorneys aiming at child sex trade epidemic through new human rights division

Prosecutors and agencies are changing how they approach prostitution charges by now targeting the root of the problem on a national level.
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Parents of Orange Park missing teen speak out on trafficking

Four hundred days without their teenage daughter has two First Coast parents fearing the worst. Makayla Rogers, 16, was reported missing to JSO August 20, 2016. Rogers' mother and stepfather Tamara and Jason Larrivee believe she ran away from home, but they don't believe she is still simply hiding. Tamara says they are convinced Makayla was transported out of state and is being trafficked against her will.