"At a news conference Tuesday about the monthslong, multicounty investigation into the ring, Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said many of the women came to the United States from China under the guise of having legitimate jobs in day spas and instead were forced to work in the sex trade and often being confined to the storefronts, eating and sleeping there when they were not working."

"The boys and girls at the facility were long accustomed to the cruelty of the streets, and for many it followed them into the group home.
The allegations include employees physically and sexually abusing children, gross overcrowding and filthy conditions. The human rights division of the attorney general’s office is investigating 25 reports of abuse between 2016 and 2017, according to Claudia Maselli, the head of the office."

"This is an urgent humanitarian issue. My Administration is committed to leveraging every resource we have to confront this threat, to support the victims and survivors, and to hold traffickers accountable for their heinous crimes."