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CHAPEL HILL - Sex trafficking is a crime mostly hidden -- even from the law enforcement officers charged with stopping it. Government and advocacy agencies estimate that hundreds of thousands, perhaps more than a million, women and children are transported across borders and forced into slavery each year. Most end up as involuntary prostitutes. The Carolina Women's Center at UNC-Chapel Hill estimates that thousands are trafficked into the Southeast alone. Yet law officers and legal advocates can count on their fingers the number of sex trafficking cases being investigated in North Carolina....

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