Alaska has a disproportionate rate of young homeless people being trafficked for sex. For Heidi Ross,it began with running absent from homeHeidi Ross was a senior in tall school when she hitchhiked from the Anchorage suburb of Eagle River into the city, leaving a shadowy childhood behind.
“I didn’t have anywhere to go, or ” she said of that day,around 20 years ago. “I had the clothes on my back.” Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com