Investigators in Oregon have discovered a massive child sex ring in which children were sold as sex slaves to high ranking pedophiles for as much as $5,000 a night.
Curry County residents Genevieve Wilson and Jackalene Antunes say they are working to help child victims of human trafficking in Southern Oregon, with very little help from the government.
Theres not as much money in drugs anymore as there is in human trafficking. They take a young child and on a good night, can make $3,000 to $5,000.
The young kids are often befriended by a man although incidences involving women exist, as well who eventually bring them in under their control.
They reassure a childs insecurities, drive a wedge between them and friends and family, buy them clothes and ultimately bring them into the underworld of illegal sex trafficking. They keep the children there using threats and abuse.
I moved her way out in the country or to another city, one trafficker admitted on the Rebecca Bender Initiative website, where a Grants Pass trafficking victim is trying to educate people about the problem.
At first, I felt excited to be in a new adventure, a new town, his survivor said. After a while, I felt I had no one to turn to, nowhere to go.
