Julia, sex trafficking and sex work are two different things. High numbers of women involved in trafficking…on the average, I am not so sure that is the case. Have you read anything on http://sextraffickingalaska.com? CUSP was able to make it possible for women and men who were and are being sex trafficked to report to the police without fear of reprisal (being charged for prostitution). This is something that needs more than a quick cover of generalized words of “demographic characteristics…” and I am also pretty certain that these two were originally charged with Sex Trafficking, as the laws changed in 2012. You are a better journalist than this. Maybe you are feeling pressured to succumb to the sex trafficking hysteria that most media is portraying. This case was DEFINITELY sex trafficking, yet maybe focusing on what resources are out there for men and women that feel compelled to work out of fear and/or force and not feeding into the “all sex work is sex trafficking” would do this more justice. My two cents, anyway.