Sex Trafficking Growing In U.S., Maryland

Sex trafficking is becoming a problem of growing concern in the U.S. 11 News I-Team reporter Deborah Weiner looked into the issue and discovered that one doesn't have to look far to find victims who have been forced to sell themselves at the hands of a human trafficker

Last week, a federal jury convicted a New York man on charges of sex trafficking in Maryland.

During that week, Weiner joined two volunteers of a group called Safe House of Hope for a night as they packed up supplies for victims of sex trafficking in south Baltimore's Curtis Bay. The pair, identified only as Gloriel and Derek, said they knew they would find some victims.

It didn't take long before they spotted young women waiting alone on the city's dark streets.

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