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Nuns help sex trafficking survivors

Sister Peggy Cummins, age 67, runs a safe house for survivors of sex trafficking.  Honoring her vow to chastity for 48 years, she had no experience with either sex or trafficking when she began this work in 2011.  Yet the horror and debasement did not shock her. Instead she was jolted by a different realization. […]

Sex Slavery: American Teens

Women rent their bodies as a choice: a myth. Pornography is a harmless spectator sport: a lie. Both enable slavery, often with teenagers plucked from American neighborhoods. Sex trafficking is a $32 billion dollar industry worldwide. That only marginalized women fall prey is another false assumption. “People think it’s just poor black girls. Pimps will […]