ABC Covers Domestic Child Trafficking

In Search of Love: Teens Lured Into Sex Trade
Police Say Portland, Ore., is a Hub for Child Sex Trafficking

ABC News
By SHARYN ALFONSI and URSULA FAHY
Sept. 22, 2010

The first time "Katie" danced at a strip club, she was 13, and in the seventh grade.

Not long before, the Oregon girl had gone on an ordinary outing to a mall in downtown Portland. She met some boys there and they invited her to a party in the suburbs. At the party, Katie met an older boy she would begin to date.

"He bought me a lot of things, like shoes, outfits and purses and stuff like that," said Katie, of J, who she began to think of as her boyfriend.

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