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Toledo Escorts: Professor inducted into hall of fame
October 12, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
Williamson eventually decided to engage prostitutes in Toledo, interviewing them and conducting research into their situations over a six month period. Many of the prostitutes Williamson spoke with explained that they were recruited and manipulated into prostitution when they were children, and had lived horrible lives filled with violence and drug abuse.
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Williamson said she finally realized how to utilize the media to spread the message about human trafficking and change the public’s perspective on prostitution, which is that prostitutes make a personal choice to sell their bodies.
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The adult prostitutes that are out on the streets are actually the children who slipped through unnoticed into the underground human trafficking network, Williamson said. While the actual number of human trafficking victims is unknown, Williamson said researchers estimate there are 100,000 to 300,000 teenage runaways each year, and in Toledo, runaways are approached by traffickers within two weeks.
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