{"id":664953,"date":"2010-02-13T16:30:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T21:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22127"},"modified":"2010-02-13T16:30:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T21:30:49","slug":"hundreds-forced-into-labor-and-sex-trade-in-ohio-every-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/664953","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Forced into Labor and Sex Trade in Ohio Every Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MATT LEINGANG writes in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/10\/AR2010021002518.html?hpid=sec-nation\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014<\/strong> About 1,000 American-born children are forced into the sex trade in Ohio every year and about 800 immigrants are sexually exploited and pushed into sweatshop-type jobs, a new report on human trafficking in the state said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio&#8217;s weak laws on human trafficking, its growing demand for cheap labor and its proximity to the Canadian border are key contributors to the illegal activity, according to a report by the Trafficking in Persons Study Commission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ohio is not only a destination place for foreign-born trafficking victims, but it&#8217;s also a recruitment place,&#8221; said Celia Williamson, an associate professor at the University of Toledo who led the research.<\/p>\n<p>Formed last year by Ohio Attorney General Richard Condray, the commission also found that hundreds more in the state&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATT LEINGANG writes in the Washington Post: COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014 About 1,000 American-born children are forced into the sex trade in Ohio every year and about 800 immigrants are sexually exploited and pushed into sweatshop-type jobs, a new report on human trafficking in the state said Wednesday. Ohio&#8217;s weak laws on human trafficking, its growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2MZ3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}