City-to-Farm Sex Pipelines Expose a Disturbing Trend Occurring in the Americas Christina Sterbenz - Business Insider
go to original February 7, 2015

Tenancingo Sex Trafficking Victim Recounts Her Story (Al Jazeera)

Newsweek's cover this week featured an in-depth story on sex trafficking in the United States.

The author, Max Kutner, reports that people run these operations from metropolitan areas, especially Queens, and then transport the women to areas of male-dominated industry, such as fracking and migrant farming, to sell themselves.

"These organizations that victimize these women ... transport them to where the business is," special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations in New York James T. Hayes Jr. told Newsweek.

The piece focuses on one woman, known only as Janet. She grew up in Tenancingo, Mexico, largely considered the sex trafficking capital of the world. There, her boyfriend forced her into prostitution and then moved them to Queens.

...While the Mexican Consulate in New York City finally freed Janet from her nightmarish life, she spent 11 years enslaved.

Read the rest of Janet's story in Newsweek

Fusion’s documentary, “Pimp City: A Journey to the Center of the Sex Slave Trade,” takes place on both sides of the border: in Tenancingo and in Queens, New York. (Fusion)

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