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Kraft Case Brings New Focus On Sex Trafficking

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New awareness about the pervasiveness of human trafficking has resulted from the charges filed against New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and about two dozen other men.

Authorities in Florida allege the men solicited prostitution at a spa where women were held in what amounted to sex slavery.

Experts say human trafficking for sex and labor operates everywhere, but below the surface.

A religious order in Springfield, Massachusetts, the Sisters of St. Joseph, has been working for almost two decades to combat human trafficking.

WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Sister Denise Granger, who chairs the order’s Justice and Peace Committee.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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