Child trafficking in Oakland USA

In a recent police action against street prostitution in Oakland, USA, police made 48 arrests including 8 minors who were working as prostitutes. The police claim that it is organised human trafficking rings which are behind the rise in child prostitution in this area of California. Police are finding that one in ten prostitutes are underage with some as young as 12 years old.  One mother of a victim complained that her daughter needed help rather than experience arrest, “She’s been raped, how was she supposed to act? No one has come to help her, she’s being held here, sitting in a cell.”
There is a human trafficking ring running from Sacramento to Oakland and the local police are now having to use federal money to try to combat it, so serious is the problem. To read more about this and related subjects, please visit ABC7news by clicking here.