Human trafficking are human rights violations and it happens in the USA.

Brittany Phillips (left) was taken in and eventually adopted by Ruth Buckels of Story City after Phillips was rescued from human traffickers in Chicago. Phillips, now 20, was recruited into prostitution at age 15 in Eastern Iowa. She now speaks about her experiences in an effort to bring awareness to the problem.

Trafficking victim hails awareness (click here)

Recruited into prostitution in East Iowa at the age of 15

25 September 2012 

Her words, “I saw many things a 15-year-old girl shouldn’t see,” provide an unconventionally-wise commentary on the true story of her experience as a victim of human trafficking.

“I saw lots of drug addicts, people walking around with guns,” Brittany Phillips, now 20, wrote in an email to The Gazette in which she shared her story and agreed to have her name be used. “I was dropped off with (another girl) at a crack house where we slept on a floor in a house infested with roaches.”

Phillips, at age 14, was taken from her mom’s home in Des Moines, where she was sexually abused by her mom’s boyfriend, and placed in a treatment facility in Iowa City. She ran away with a friend and ended up in Cedar Rapids, where she encountered a series of men who repeatedly tried to sell or trade her for sex....

Go ahead, try to educate that !

Be sure and get the parents involved, too.