A workshop Thursday at Salish Kootenai College in the Mission Valley features two advocates who work with both the victims of human trafficking, and those who perpetrate the crime.
MTPR's Edward O'Brien talks with Missoula Police Detective Guy Baker, a member of the FBI's Montana Regional Violent Crime Task Force, and Kat Werner, who manages YWCA Missoula's domestic and sexual violence program.
Baker says trafficking is so pervasive because "there's a lot of money to be made."
According to Werner, many victims "feel like they are almost in an intimate partner relationship with the pimp or with the trafficker, so that of course prevents them from seeking help or reaching out to law enforcement."