RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — From 2012 to 2022, the number of people prosecuted for human trafficking nationally more than doubled. That’s according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Human trafficking comes in many forms, revolves around exploitation—and it can happen to anyone, anywhere.
“The last four, six months of it. I was actually held in a basement of a house. There was a padlock on the outside of the door, I was in there with two other girls. We were only let out to work,” Kristin Vaughn told us, as we sat with her in her friend’s home in Apex in January…