Sex Trafficking In ATL: What You Don’t See Behind Closed Doors

Human trafficking, a “modern-day slavery,” is the second largest criminal enterprise in the world — second only to the drug trade, according to the nonprofit Out of Darkness.

Photo illustration by Eliza Griffin / VOX ATL

By Eliza Griffin

Sex trafficking: the illegal business of recruiting, harboring, transporting, obtaining or providing a person and especially a minor for the purpose of sex.

Atlanta — home to many things: the Falcons, Coca-Cola, CNN — and one of the biggest hubs of sex trafficking nationwide.