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October 29, 2014

Mormons vs. Sex-Traffickers

Peggy Fletcher Stack, Salt Lake Tribune

Three weeks ago, Laurin Crosson got word that yet another john had slit the throat of yet another sex-trafficked woman.

Crosson — who spent two decades in that dark, violent world — has seen the scenario painfully play out over and over.

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TAGGED: Mormons, Sex-trafficking

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