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Trade

Document number
1559
Date
2007
Title
Trade
Author/publisher
Marco Kreuzpaintner
Availability
LSI library
Document type(s)
Multimedia,
Keywords
Human trafficking, Sexual exploitation, Women, Children, Trafficking process, Recruitment, Transportation, Transit, Transfer, Consent, Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, Women's rights; Women; Control and regulation of prostitution, Protection, Punishable forms of prostitution,
Summary
When 13-year-old Adriana is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico City, her 17-year-old brother, Jorge, sets off on a desperate mission to save her. Trapped by an underground network of international thugs who earn millions exploiting their human cargo, Adriana's only friend throughout her ordeal is Veronica, a young Polish woman captured by the same criminal gang. As Jorge dodges overwhelming obstacles to track the girl's abductors, he meets Ray, a Texas cop whose own family loss leads him to become an ally. From the barrios of Mexico City and the treacherous Rio Grande border, to a secret internet sex slave auction and a tense confrontation at a stash house in suburban New Jersey, Ray and Jorge forge a close bond as they frantically pursue Adriana's kidnappers before she is sold and disappears into a brutal underworld from which few victims ever return. Inspired by Peter Landesman's chilling NY Times Magazine story on the U.S. sex trade, 'The Girls Next Door,' TRADE is a thrilling story of courage and a devastating expose of one of the world's most heinous crimes. Official website: http://www.tradethemovie.com/
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