Human Trafficking: Langley Park residents say brothels operate in plain sight – IOTW Report

Human Trafficking: Langley Park residents say brothels operate in plain sight

Getting the cooperation of victims is difficult, because many don’t speak English and some are in the United States illegally. 

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MarylandReporter:

Maria Sorto, originally from El Salvador, had just moved into an apartment complex in Langley Park when she was approached by a man with a business proposition: He wanted to operate a brothel out of her new home.

“He said, ‘We can become partners,’” Sorto said in Spanish.  “I told him no — that in my apartment, I was not going to do that….”

But others were willing. On Friday nights, after receiving their paychecks, men would swarm into the apartment buildings in search of drugs and prostitutes, she said.

Sorto moved to Hyattsville a couple months ago.

Rife with prostitution and human trafficking

Community members and law enforcement officials say Langley Park, located just inside the Capital Beltway in Prince George’s County, is rife with prostitution and human trafficking.

“Throw a rock anywhere in Langley Park and you get a brothel,” said Christine White, a University of Maryland criminologist and chair of the research committee for the Prince George’s County Human Trafficking Task Force.

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