Xieuwen Zhang speaks about her arrest at XF Massage
From the Parlors of abuse: Our nation’s sex trafficking gauntlet series
Xiuwen Zhang — a Chinese immigrant and state-licensed massage therapist who owns XF Massage in Chesterfield, Virginia — discusses her arrest.
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FBI data from local police departments show that only seven percent of human trafficking offenses led to arrests from 2021 to 2023 — 1,344 arrests for 19,225 reported offenses.
Trafficking cases can be complex, leading some jurisdictions to take shortcuts by arresting or disciplining the women for prostitution, which experts say is punishing the victims without solving the problem.
One detective used an approach that experts now consider a model for tackling the exploitation of immigrant women trapped in the human trafficking trade.
