By BISHOP NASH
The Herald-Dispatch
(Herald-Dispatch photo by Sholten Singer)
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Human trafficking is not a matter tucked out of sight in developing nations. It’s driven past on the streets of Huntington each day and found even in the most far-flung hollows of outlying West Virginia.
Second only to drug trafficking as the largest criminal enterprise worldwide and in the United States, the prevalence of human trafficking has been fueled locally by the region’s opioid epidemic as victims are sexually exploited to fund drug addiction, either their own or someone else’s.
As part of what senior deputy attorney general Robert Leslie called the cultivation of a “statewide force multiplier” in detecting and uprooting human trafficking, the West Virginia Attorney General’s Office hosted a training seminar Wednesday for health care providers, particularly nurses and frontline staff, at Cabell Huntington Hospital in Huntington.
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