GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Just three months in, Katelyn Watts’ graduate student project rescued several victims of human trafficking and became part of a hospital system’s screening process.
“You see the posters and feel bad, but you don’t think it’s in your backyard. But it is. More and more it’s happening to kids. In many cases it’s a family member doing the trafficking,” Watts said.
During the project period in late spring, nurses identified five victims, including children, and police arrested three suspected traffickers in North Florida…