METHUEN — In less than a week, the city has successfully closed nine massage parlors suspected of human trafficking.
But the victims – often women from overseas forced into servitude – will likely face a much longer road, with many barriers, to their own freedom, according to advocates who work with people involved in the sex trade.
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