AP - Los Angeles County is trying something new to get women out of the sex trade. The nation's most populous county is widely regarded as the U.
The sheriff's department is aiming to get handcuffs on the traffickers and the men who pay for sex while providing the help women and girls need to leave the sex trade. The technique was on display recently in Compton. While deputies arrested 17 men who solicited undercover officers, the seven women and a year-old girl who were being trafficked were met by counselors who provided information on emergency housing, social services and legal help.
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In this Wednesday, Nov. For hours, Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies listen to the same scenario play out over and over: men pull up alongside a woman pacing in front of an abandoned storefront in Compton and proposition her to have sex with him. They soon found themselves in handcuffs.
