HOUSTON - A modern day international sex slavery ring has been broken up right under our noses. Since 1999, federal investigators say young Mexican women and girls have been smuggled into an east Houston compound, then forced to work as prostitutes.



Horrible acts are mentioned in the indictment returned this week and unsealed on Thursday. The feds allege the east Houston ring has been in operation for a dozen years, though Houston's Human Trafficking Rescue Alliance didn't begin…

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For the thousands of women who have been trafficked into Houston and forced to work as prostitutes in the city’s underground sex trade, escaping from captivity may be the easiest part

of the nearly impossible road to recovery.

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