BAMA!!!! Opelika Police Department Bust Human-Trafficking Ring In Alabama

Police responded June 23 to a local hotel, where they found the 16-year-old girl and other underage girls in another room, who they said were also being forced into prostitution by adults.

Authorities arrested Aleisha Michell Bufford, 25, on two felony first-degree counts of human trafficking.

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Sex trafficking: The horror and the hope

(CNN) When Karla Jacinto was aged just 12 she fell for a 22-year-old man.

She ran away from the small Mexican town where she grew up so she could be with him. At first he treated her well, showering her with gifts. It wasn't long before he was forcing her to work as a prostitute.

She says that for the best part of four years, she saw up to 30 men a day, seven days a week.

"I had to close my eyes so that that I wouldn't see what they were doing to me, so that I wouldn't feel anything," she said.

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