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'We're in Crisis Mode': Sex Trafficking on US Native Reserves

Life on the remote Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northern Montana has all the ingredients for sex trafficking: poverty, isolation, joblessness and violence, topped with an epidemic of crystal meth addiction, community leaders, experts and federal authorities told Reuters this week.

Drug users are selling their babies, daughters and sisters for the potent stimulant that is ravaging Native American communities such as the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes living on the desolate plains of Fort Peck, they explained.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Were-in-Crisis-Mode-Sex-Trafficking-on-US-Native-Reserves-20160518-0053.html

 

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