Human trafficking

BOOM: Undercover sting operation blows up Alabama sex trafficking ring

Alabama is home to a “Sex Trafficking Superhighway” that most people do not even realize exists.

I-20 is a 1,513 mile stretch of highway that runs halfway across America, from West Texas to South Carolina.

The stretch of I-20 between Atlanta, Georgia, and Birmingham, Alabama, which is used by over 10 million people each year is “America’s number one road for human sex trafficking.”

And business along I-20 is booming. Sex trafficking is the world’s fastest growing illegal activity. It is a $13 billion per year business in the United States alone, and 75% of the victims are being trafficked as sex slaves.

Shockingly, in 2013, four times the amount of people were sold as slaves in America than the year before the Civil War.