The use of online social networking websites has fostered greater access to young women to turn into captive sex workers

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The Underground Gangster Crips was identified as one of the largest and most violent sex trade traffickers during the recent to U.S. District Court in Alexandria case. The gang is comprised of more than 800 individual street gangs with a presence in more than 30 states.

 Human trafficking in the United States results in millions of victims each year, according to the Washington Times. Victims of the underground human trafficking trade are often forced to become sex workers and servants on farms.

Governor John Kasich vowed to combat human trafficking and the sex trade in Ohio earlier this week by creating a statewide task force to investigate such crimes, the Columbus Dispatch reports.

The Crips street gang has expanded into high schools across the nation to recruit young girls who are then turned into prostitute and subjected to assault if they attempt to escape, the Washington Times reports.

Sex Trade

The use of online social networking websites has fostered greater access to young women to turn into captive sex workers, according to the Washington Times. Websites such as Date Hook Up and Facebook have been used by prostitution rings and street gangs to lure girls and young women into a life of forced sex.

Most sex slaves or forced sex workers are girls around the age of 15, according to U.S. District Court in Alexandria case documents published in the Washington Times.

Victims of the sex trade are from varying class, religious and racial backgrounds, according to Project Meridian Foundation statistics also reported in the Washington Times.

A total of 1.6 million minors have been forced in sex-for-hire scenarios in the United States. The American child sex trade includes both native and foreign-born citizens.

Farm Servants

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 was passed to combat the growing problem of forcibly harboring farmworkers and pressing them into involuntary servitude, according to the Farmworker Unit of Legal Aid in North Carolina website.

Like sex trade captives, the forced farmworkers are subjected to physical violence and threats to force them into compliance. Both types of victims are often confined to a specific area without access to transportation. Unlike sex trade workers, farmworkers are often both male and female.

Forced farmworkers typically range from age five to adults in their fifties. Earlier this week Congress introduced legislation proposing stricter safety rules for child farmworkers to aid in the detection and punishment of traffickers, Stop Child Labor reports.

Traffickers

The Underground Gangster Crips was identified as one of the largest and most violent sex trade traffickers during the recent to U.S. District Court in Alexandria case. The gang is comprised of more than 800 individual street gangs with a presence in more than 30 states.

A group of four individuals were arrested in Boston earlier this week under the state's new human trafficking statutes. The sexual servitude charges allege that young women were kept in sub-standard conditions and forced to have sex with "johns" up to 15 times per day, according to the Massachusetts Attorney General website.

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