One of the most infamous examples of sex slavery within the United States took place back in February 2002 in a seemingly well-reputed neighborhood in Plainfield, New Jersey.

On a tip, Plainfield police raided one of the many blended slate-gray colored homes on West Front Street, only to find a myriad of young Mexican girls between the ages of 14 to 17 living among the rancid remains of used condoms, penicillin shots, birth control pills, stained mattresses lined up along the walls underneath blacked-out windows and sitting only a few inches from cold, rat infested concrete floors.

This disgusting example of human living was not the result of some over-crowded immigrant family with no desire to clean. It was one of the many child sex slavery brothels disguised within normal American suburbs and it was housing half-starved, half-drugged sex slaves.

Unfortunately, this "stash house" scene, as it is often referred to by law enforcement, is just one of hundreds, if not thousands located throughout major American cities such as Los Angeles, Houston and -- you guessed it -- Atlanta, Georgia.

People who are not too familiar with the global Child Sex Trafficking Trade may be wondering to themselves how these under-aged children are coaxed into being sex slaves in the first place.

Many children are trafficked unwillingly to the United States via Mexico and South America. In addition to being kidnapped, many of them are actually tricked into becoming sex slaves.

For example, in Colombia a young girl waitressing for money may be told by a seemingly well-to-do customer that she looks like she could be a model. She may be promised a lot of money, a better life, a career of fame and fortune.

Often times these are lies on behalf of workers and/or leaders within the sex trafficking trade. These young girls will either run away or leave with these men thinking that they are going to America legitimately in order to embark on a new career. However, it is only shortly thereafter that these young women (and in many cases young men) are then enslaved, drugged, starved and forced to service up to 10 to 20 men and women a day before and after they are trafficked into the United States.

In Eastern European capitals such as Kiev and Moscow in addition to false model and actress/actor scouts, many young sex-trafficking victims are first tricked into traveling to the United States via the local newspapers.

In the former Soviet republic of Moldova -- the poorest country in Europe and one that is reported to be the most heavilyl culled by traffickers for young women -- the capital city Chisinau actually has billboards that display fresh-faced, smiling young women. These billboards beckon girls to waitress positions in Paris.

More often than not, these billboards are nothing more than pipe-dreams designed to trap young women. There are no waitress positions and no "Paris" for the young girls that fall victim.

Even more disturbing is that these young women actually pay for themselves to be slaves. Although they are doing this unwittingly, it only adds to the general degradation. They are tricked into paying their own travel expenses, which is usually around $3,000. They are told this is a down payment on what will inevitably transform into a bright, prosperous future.

Instead, as the usual, but not well known story goes -- these young women will find themselves kept prisoner in Mexico before being moved to the United States and sold into sexual bondage.