Expert: Child traffickers target runaways, “throwaways”

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“Polaris Project, a nonprofit organization that studies human trafficking, has more frequently seen cases in which children were sold by family members ‘out of desperation in developing countries’ such as Cambodia or sub-Saharan African nations, said executive director and CEO Mark Lagon . . . More common in the United States are traffickers who exploit abused runaways or so-called ‘throwaways’ — children abandoned by their parents and living on the streets, Lagon said.”

November 18, 2009 | Comments Off  Tags: , , ,