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May 6, 2019 · 45:01 · 6 min

Reading the trafficking op-ed

  • Who buys a trafficked child for sex?

A host reads from a USA Today opinion piece, 'Who buys a trafficked child for sex?': an International Labor Organization estimate, the story of a 15-year-old Illinois girl trafficked across the South by Marcus Thompson and his wife Robin, a Center for Court Innovation study estimating 8,900-10,500 children exploited yearly in the US, and the piece's answer that buyers are otherwise ordinary men — people in their forties living in the suburbs.

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