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What to know about sex trafficking as Pittsburgh hosts the NFL draft

  • Written by Mary Burke, Professor of Psychology, Carlow University
imageEvents that draw large crowds can create opportunities traffickers may try to exploit.AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar

With the NFL draft taking place in Pittsburgh and an estimated 500,000 to 700,000 people expected to attend the events downtown and on the North Shore, conversations about sex trafficking have resurfaced – as they often do when major...

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