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Almost eight years ago, Elizabeth Henneke received a call about a 16-year-old who had been convicted of the crimes of her 32-year-old sex trafficker and sentenced to 20 years in an adult prison. The teenager, who had been forced to sell sex while her trafficker stole from her clients, was charged with aggravated robbery as an accessory to the crime.

“I was quite astounded that a survivor, especially a child survivor, of sex trafficking could end up charged… with the crimes of her trafficker,” said Henneke, a lawyer who has been working for trafficking survivors for almost 20 years and the founder of Lone Star Justice Alliance, a nonprofit that r

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