Hidden in plain sight: Human trafficking and the B.C. connection [Video]

This project was made possible with funding provided by the Lieutenant Governor’s B.C. Journalism Fellowship in partnership with Government House Foundation and the Jack Webster Foundation.

Warning: This story may be disturbing to some readers.

You may not see it or even know it’s happening in your community.

But it is an evil shrouded in the dark shadows of society, and even experts do not know its full scope.

What they do know, is that the crime of sex trafficking is vast. And it is growing.

“It’s a huge problem and it’s in every community and people just don’t know,’ explained Mia Golden, a Youth and Family counsellor with Mobile Youth Services Team in Victoria.

Her words are echoed by many others who are also trying to help those entrapped in the trafficking of humans.

“It quite literally is in every community. It doesn’t matter if you’re in a rural centre, or urban centre, or in Northern B.C. This …