In a given month, 7,200 men buy sex with an adolescent female in Georgia. Atlanta has the highest annual revenue in the underground commercial sex economy at $290m per year.
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In a given month, 7,200 men buy sex with an adolescent female in Georgia. Atlanta has the highest annual revenue in the underground commercial sex economy at $290m per year.

A major campaign is underway to stop human trafficking in Georgia.

 

First lady Marty Kemp is the co-chair of the newly formed Georgians for Refuge, Action, Compassion and Education, or GRACE, commission.

 

And in Atlanta, the International Human Trafficking Institute is in the middle of a campaign called ‘Truth in Trafficking,' which includes a billboard campaign that runs until mid-June.

 

 GPB's Leah Fleming speaks with IHT Institute director Deborah Richardson

GPB's Leah Fleming spoke with Deborah Richardson, who is the director of the institute, about the campaign and her experience combatting human trafficking.

 

LISTENER WARNING: This conversation includes references to sexual violence.

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