Friday 10pm - FRONTLINE Investigative series - An up-close look into sex trafficking, including how victims are groomed and sold, as well as how undercover police target traffickers and buyers
Sex Trafficking in America tells the unimaginable stories of young women coerced into prostitution – and follows one police unit that’s committed to rooting out sexual exploitation.
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Award-winning director Jezza Neumann and producer Lauren Mucciolo embed with the Phoenix police unit that’s tackling child sexual exploitation, offering an inside look at the lucrative industry through unique access to a series of undercover, high-stakes police operations.
“Most people do not understand the volume of trafficking that’s going on in America, in our own backyard…” Detective Christi Decouflé of the Phoenix Police Department tells FRONTLINE. “Instead of us realizing that it’s an epidemic out there, it’s America’s dirty little secret.”
