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Economic hard times have a tendency to place a spotlight on a number of society’s darker issues.
Among those issues are human trafficking, as women including young girls are preyed upon by men for lives as sex slaves amid drug use. Texas holds the ill-gotten ranking as second in the nation for human trafficking and Dallas is second in cities within the state. NBCDFW reports at any given time there are 234,000 given victims in Texas with 80,000 of them minors. An estimated 400 teens are sold on the streets of Dallas each night.
New Friends New Life, a Dallas-based nonprofit, works to help survivors. It takes those who have been sexually exploited and provides access to education, job training, mental health and spiritual support in addition to other support services, NBCDFW reported.
With the spread of COVID-19, the organization is working with cutbacks and hoping to draw additional funds to make up for budget setbacks. CEO Kim Robinson said COVID-19 had brought an uptick in online exploitation.
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