nigeria: Italy's Sex Trade Pulls Teens Pushed by Poverty

Nigerians form the largest percentage of foreign prostitutes on the rainy streets of northern Italy. Though a government crackdown making prostitution, trafficking and being trafficked illegal has slowed the trade, it has not stopped. Instead, it has gone underground, enabled by an informal network of traffickers, by parents seeking easy income and, most of all, by the inescapable poverty awaiting those who refuse to go.