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'It makes me sick': Children sold for sex on Seattle streets |
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SEATTLE - He makes promises he doesn't keep - and what he takes destroys lives and tears families apart.
He's the guy out there right now on the streets of Seattle selling sex with underaged girls - children.
Now, a teenager who escaped from his clutches describes her terrifying ordeal - in her own words - in a letter she wrote and shared with KOMO News.
"Everything he ever told me was just lies," says "Natalie," who doesn't want her real name used or her photo to be shown. "Pimps know that they have got you all tangled up in their lies." For the rest of the story, please follow this link: http://www.komonews.com/news/problemsolvers/132893483.html
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