<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-08-21/magazine/fall-2018/bringing-hope-victims-trafficking.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Bringing Hope to Victims of Trafficking</title><excerpt>Dan DeSaegher ’82 learned about sex trafficking from his 14-year-old daughter, Riley. “It’s all over San Diego, Dad,” she said. Skeptical at first, he soon confirmed the shocking statistics. In his city alone, the business of selling girls—80 percent of them Americans—brings in $810 million, mostly from American buyers. Traffickers actively recruit on local junior high and high school campuses, becoming “boyfriends” to girls ages 13-16 and drawing them into the sex trade by asking them for “favors.” Shame, low self-worth and violence keep them enslaved. “This epidemic is going on right under our noses,” Dan says.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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