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SAMUEL B. PARKER Richmond Times-Dispatch AND DAVID HEATH Lee Enterprises
FBI data from local police departments show that only 7% of human trafficking offenses led to arrests from 2021 to 2023 — 1,344 arrests for 19,225 reported offenses.

Women are sex-trafficked in more storefronts than there are McDonald’s. But who’s watching?
As sex trafficking victims face coercion, rape in illicit parlors, little is done for justice
UPDATE: Chinese crime ring linked to prostitution probe at Chesterfield massage parlors