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General News 4/26/2011 at 8:37 PM EDT

Sex trafficking in the U.S. called "epidemic' By Chuck Neubauer

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Sex trafficking is so widespread, said Nathan Wilson, founder of the Project Meridian Foundation in Arlington, which helps police identify traffickers and their victims, that "no country, no race, no religion, no class and no child is immune." He said 1.6 million children younger than 18 -- native and foreign-born -- have been caught up in this country's sex trade.

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