Anderson Cooper covered the modern day slave trade on last nights show. His trail takes his team across the globe to Uganda where children are forced to be soldiers. He also covers the sex slave trade in Cambodia and (disturbingly) in Atlanta, Georgia.
Many of the pimps are drug dealers looking to make some extra money, according to LaKendra Baker, a counselor for current and former child prostitutes. “You can only sell a dime bag once; you can sell a 10-year-old girl over and over again,” Baker said.
Sick and sad. And we are all completely ignorant of it.