According to officials Connecticut highways are often used for sex trafficking.
Answering an advertisement for beautician, a Chinese woman took a bus from New York from interstate 95, the bus was from interstate 91 to Windsor Locks.
According to police, she was forced into modern day sex slavery in the sex trade until she was rescued by the police.
In an another trafficking case, a teenage girl was held against her will in an apartment building with all the windows barred with iron rods.
Deputy Chief Brain J. Foley said that she was sexually assaulted, the teen was sold and trafficked for nearly a month.
Foley said that, they managed to find the exact location of the apartment and rescued the girl from where she was being captured. But the problem was police did not find any suspect at that time.
Later, two men were arrested by the Hartford police and were charged with sexual assault and trafficking. The special task force for trafficking, said that similar incidents happened in Hartford, Windsor Locks, Milford, New Haven, Clinton, Darien and dozens of other towns across Connecticut.
Human trafficking and teen exploitation can happen anywhere said Sargent Richard Alexander of the Connecticut State Police.
Alexander said “the human trafficking case’s, which they are investigation happens in most of the larger cities and also in rural communities.
The Trafficking task force not only investigates cases coming up the interstate highway, but also on the information highway. Alexandre said traffickers use some personal advertisements on websites to sell these exploited teens online.
He also said that “Trafficking was a result of the availability of these websites and by the use of these websites cases are becoming much more prevalent.
Most of the cases that police break in Connecticut are actually referred by outside agencies from the south, New York or Boston. They ask public to call the tip line or 911 if in any case they notice something unusual.
Many of the cases that police break here in Connecticut are actually referred to by outside agencies from down south, New York or Boston. They also ask the public that if you see anything out of the ordinary, call the tip line or 911.
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