Police chief, others talk of sex trafficking...
Published in the September 30, 2015 edition By MARK SARDELLA WAKEFIELD — “Wakefield is no different than any city or town in this country,” Police Chief Rick Smith told attendees at a forum on human trafficking and prostitution held at the First Baptist Church last night. “We all deal with prostitution, we all deal with massage parlors and we all deal with human trafficking – whether it’s labor trafficking or sex slave trafficking,” Smith said. “Every country in the world deals with trafficking for sex.” It’s a huge problem, Smith said, for law enforcement, communities and faith-based groups. Smith noted that over the last couple of years, local police have received an increasing number of calls regarding massage parlors serving as fronts for prostitution. In prior years, he said, police would get calls from...
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