http://www.bnd.com/living/magazine/article155272959.html
BELLEVILLE, IL – (Mary Cooley, Belleville News Democrat. Please click on the link to read the full story. Here is an excerpt below.)
“Tracy” was rescued from her child sex trafficker by a drug dealer. It was the first time anyone had intervened on her behalf in the six years that her trafficker spent recruiting, transporting, advertising and selling her sex for his profit.
Tracy was one of an unknown number of boys and girls forced into the sex trade in the greater St. Louis area, including Southern Illinois. Experts agree the number of victims is “high” and “growing,” but struggle to assign a number or percentage.
Earlier this week, an accused sex trafficker with ties to Belleville was linked to the death of a young child whose decomposed body was found Tuesday in a Centreville garage. Las Vegas police alerted Centreville police of a tip from a woman who said her husband had killed the girl and left the body in the garage in 2013.
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