A new feature film depicts the harrowing story of a child kidnapped and sold to a sweatshop in California.
SAN FRANCISCO -- A new feature film is drawing attention to a grim reality in America: child trafficking. City of Dreams depicts the harrowing story of a child kidnapped and sold to a sweatshop in California.Vanessa Russell, an anti-sex/labor-trafficking activist and founder of Hayward-based nonprofit Love Never Fails, says that child trafficking is a pervasive issue in California and across the nation.'There's a lot of different ways that someone can be sold in our world, unfortunately.
'I celebrate now this new story that is being told to shed light on this issue,' she said.The film was written and directed by Mohit Ramchandani and produced by Tony Robbins. Robbins hopes the film will expose the severity of the trafficking crisis in the United States.'It's a $150 billion-a-year industry. It's the fastest-growing industry in the criminal world because, when you sell a drug, you gotta sell it again. You sell a child, you use them over and over again.
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