They think they're going to be stars

A scene from Abducted, showing what happens to the girls taken by traffickers in LA

Dominique was just 13 years old when she was first trafficked for sex - one of an estimated 100,000 American children sold into prostitution each year, according to anti-trafficking charity, Saving Innocence.

And Dominique, now 18 and back in school, is by no means unusual. As Mark Harris, director of hard-hitting new film Abducted, reveals, teenage girls are easy prey for traffickers.

'Girls go out to LA thinking they're going to be pop stars and then they get drugged up and end up in trafficking,' he explains.

'Only two per cent [of young girls who go there] find work. Agents don't give a s*** about talent - they just care about money.

'You get all these 16 and 18-year-olds who think they're going to be the next Britney Spears... They think they're going to be stars but we all know they aren't.'

Delving deeper into Los Angeles' seedy underworld, Harris came across tales of paedophilia, rape, human trafficking and child abduction.  (more...)

They think they're going to be stars