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Speaker 1: from give me your formal title, Shane, I'm the assignment editor,

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Speaker 1: social media web producer c w N and Memphis, Tennessee. Shane,

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Speaker 1: you have had a lot of experience in covering human

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Speaker 1: one homeless youth say they've been victims of human trafficking.

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Speaker 1: Fifty eight percent say they've been traffic for sex, seven

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Speaker 1: percent say trafficed for labor. This is happening right under

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Speaker 1: our noses. So, Shane, what do we do about it.

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Speaker 1: We've got to be vigilant. We've got to watch out

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Speaker 1: wherever you stop. Look. One of the worst places is

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Speaker 1: also our truck stops. If you're traveling, look around the trucks,

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Speaker 1: because some girls are taking around and past the different

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Speaker 1: truck stops. Just wherever you're at, even at the mall

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Speaker 1: of the supermarket, keep your eye open. You know. It

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Speaker 1: just breaks my heart. It breaks my heart said to

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Speaker 1: think that these children have been torn away from their

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Speaker 1: teens could be solved, and human trafficking is at the root.

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Speaker 1: It's almost too hard to believe. I remember when I

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Speaker 1: was little, my mom would told me that I had

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Speaker 1: to stay close to her or the gypsies would steal me.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even know what a gypsy was, but I

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Speaker 1: was so afraid. Okay, you know what, how how close

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Speaker 1: to the truth she was not about gypsies, but about

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Speaker 1: being stolen right exactly. I was terrified of hobo's hobos. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my grandmother would say hobos. And I did not know

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Speaker 1: what a hobo was, and I did not know what

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Speaker 1: to try to steal me. Okay, that is a light note,

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Speaker 1: but the truth is the hell that these people are

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Speaker 1: living through that have been trafficked. And let me give

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Speaker 1: you one more important way to combat this, and that

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Speaker 1: is to look at the sex slave as the victim

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Speaker 1: and not the suspect. It was in the past more

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Speaker 1: that when they would arrest one of these women, they

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Speaker 1: would charge them with prostitution, put them in jail for

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Speaker 1: some time, and they'd have a criminal record, whereas actually

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Speaker 1: they were the victims. And there are laws changing all

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Speaker 1: over the country where when they identify what's really happening

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Speaker 1: to them, that they are sex slaves, they are treating

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Speaker 1: them as the victim, and that really helps go a

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Speaker 1: long way in solving this this problem. Here is the

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Speaker 1: eight hundred number one eight eight eight three seven three

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Speaker 1: seven eight eight eight toll free eight eight eight three

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Speaker 1: seven three seven eight eight eight Shane Deeter keeping up

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Speaker 1: the good fight. Thank you friend, Nancy Grace Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: signing off, goodbye friend,