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"Not every victim is being held against their will
in an apartment or a cellar or something like that.
They’re controlled in different ways,”
said Inspector James Klein,
commander of the NYPD’s Vice Enforcement Unit."
"They sit next to you on the subway and attend school with your children.
Some come from money; others were born into poverty.
There is no cookie-cutter mold for the city's sex-trafficking victims, a hidden - and burgeoning - part of its population.
"It's that confluence of a super-young, vulnerable person meeting a predatory individual who is ultimately part of a billion-dollar sex industry," said Rachel Lloyd, founder of the anti-sex trafficking group Girls Educational & Mentoring Services and a survivor herself.
"They don't really stand a chance."
In Day 2 of the Post's three-part series on New York's sex-trafficking epidemic, survivors, advocates and law-enforcement officials provide a glimpse into what it's like for the thousands of women and men who are bought, sold and abused across the five boroughs every day.
Their stories reveal how choice and consent get blurred in the face of desperation - and the lasting effects of the psychological warfare carried out by their ruthless pimps."
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