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''HMMMMM'' …..never occurred to me before but the intracoastal waterway travels a good piece, and one never has to go out to sea.
The Trafficking Truth: Authorities investigate human trafficking on local waterways
Young women and children, ferried across the Lowcountry, forced into a life of sex and drugs.
This week ABC News 4 rode along with federal investigators on a land, sea and air mission that started Wednesday May 19. In this first part of a two-part series, Anne Emerson and photojournalist Jason Tighe find out why agents are zeroing in on our waterways.
Leaning on the resources from our state and local law enforcement, Homeland Security investigators launched “Operation Lighthouse.”
Agents are trying to find victims of human trafficking, a crime considered to be "modern-day slavery," according to the SC attorney general Alan Wilson.
An undercover federal agent told ABC News 4 the young human trafficking victims are typically brought out to the party boats for entertainment.
https://abcnews4.com/news/local/part-one-the-trafficking-truth
The Intracoastal Waterway
The Intracoastal Waterway (ICW) is a 3,000-mile (4,800 km) inland waterway along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts of the United States, running from Boston, Massachusetts, southward along the Atlantic Seaboard and around the southern tip of Florida, then following the Gulf Coast to Brownsville, Texas. Some sections of the waterway consist of natural inlets, saltwater rivers, bays, and sounds, while others are artificial canals. It provides a navigable route along its length without many of the hazards of travel on the open sea.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracoastal_Waterway