Patchwork Of Programs Serve Child Sex-Trafficking Victims

DALLAS (AP) — The need for long-term and specialized care to treat child sex-trafficking victims is increasing as the focus across the U.S. shifts from punishment to treatment.
Just this past week, a residential facility in Texas began taking in girls amid a makeshift response nationwide to a growing population of child sex-trafficking victims.
Cecilia Roberts went to such a facility in Georgia when she was 17. She says it was all she needed at that age, “just peace, and a little bit