“When you have a collection of people who are people of color, who are marginalized, who are poor, who are criminalized, and you have somebody on the other side of the transaction who is most likely white, privileged, employed, and not criminalized, you have a very exploitative, toxic situation going on, whether or not there’s a trafficker.”
Valiant Richey is a King County Senior Deputy Prosecuting Attorney.
For the last eight years, he has worked in the Special Assault Unit, which handles cases involving the sexual abuse of children and adults and the physical abuse of children.
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