London Guardian: Forced labour and rape, the new face of slavery in America

"In one recent incident a 16-year-old Mexican girl was found to have been trafficked across the US border. Doctors noticed the heavily pregnant girl showed clear signs of physical abuse when she was brought into a hospital in Dayton to give birth. The police were called but the couple who had brought her had already fled. When the girl's story emerged, it became clear she had been kept against her will in the nearby city of Springfield and used for labour and sex. 'I thought slavery ended a few centuries ago. But here it is alive and well,' said Springfield's sheriff, Gene Kelly.