Three decades ago, the relatives of an eleven-year-old Native girl in Minnesota forced her to have sex with a man in exchange for alcohol. The story was not front-page news. It was not the subject of a feature-length film with a happy ending. No one intervened. But when she turned eighteen, the police started paying attention. She was arrested and convicted over twenty times for prostitution. Her parents addiction became her own, and she entered treatment dozens of times.
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The report also recommends other measures, including: raising awareness
of the problem, increasing criminal penalties for purchasers of sexual
services, training health care workers and others to identify signs of
sex trafficking, and providing job opportunities for victims of
prostitution.
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In the meantime, every day Native woman are being prostituted in
Minnesota. The story of the woman who was sold into prostitution at age
eleven demonstrates the challenges of intervention.
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