Miami-Dade Community Leaders Use PSA To Urge End Of Human Trafficking
MIAMI (CBS4) - Sitting in an upscale Miami hotel room a young women, trafficked as a sex slave to Florida, spoke of needing to be rescued.
The advocate who went undercover to save her says Miami is a burgeoning epicenter of modern day slavery .
"In Miami we found more trafficking than anywhere else," said the impassioned author.
The battleground of fighting human trafficking increasingly coming out of the shadows shifting to public and political arenas.
A series of PSA's, released Friday by the Children's Trust and the Women's Fund of Miami-Dade, contained a message for the Johns, or the men who pay to be serviced by children and trafficked women.
CBS4 investigations into the crime reveal the voice of the horror.
A key player in federal efforts to hold the traffickers accountable and rescue victims was the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
"You can't forget the pain you see in their face" Special Agent Tonja Marshall told CBS 4 Chief Investigator Michele Gillen the traffickers are closer than you think.
"It's your neighbor, folks next to you in church and in restaurants, they are here in your backyard," says Marshall.
