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.