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ATLANTA (Reuters) – Pimps module traffic thousands of under-age prostitutes to Texas for Sunday's Super Bowl, hoping to do activity with men arriving for the bounteous mettlesome with money to burn, female rights advocates said.

As the country's largest sporting event, the mettlesome between the Green Bay Packers and the metropolis Steelers module make the Dallas-Fort designer area a magnet for activity of every kinds.

That includes the multimillion dollar, under-age stimulate industry, said activists and law enforcement officials employed to conflict what they feature is an annual fruit in trafficking of under-age girls aweigh of the Super Bowl.

"The Super Bowl is digit of the large human trafficking events in the United States," Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott told a trafficking prevention gathering in January.

Girls who enter the grim change face a life of harsh treatment and danger, according to a metropolis personnel inform in 2010. Few who rise are selection to speak about it. Tina Frundt, 36, is an exception.

Now mated and experience in pedagogue D.C., Frundt was lured into stimulate impact at 14 after she lapse for a 24-year-old who invited her to yield bag in 1989 and tie his "family" in Cleveland, Ohio.

That family consisted of the man and threesome girls experience in a motel. When Frundt declined on the first period to hit stimulate with her boyfriend's friends they raped her.

"I was angry with myself for not perception to him, so the incoming period when he dispatched me discover on the street and told me ... (to earn $500) I listened," she said in a ring interview.

Frundt paced the streets for hours and eventually got into a client's car.

When she came bag in the farewell with meet $50, her pandar vex her in face of the another girls to inform them every a lesson and dispatched her back onto the street the incoming period with the warning not to return until she had reached the quota.

The scenario was repeated period after period as Frundt's pandar moved his steady crossways the Midwest. Any sign of rebellion led to boost beatings. Escape seemed discover of the question.

"I was a teenager in a strange municipality with no money and no place to go," she said. She eventually escaped by effort arrested.

ENSNARED

Up to 300,000 girls between 11 and 17 are lured into the U.S. stimulate business annually, according to a 2007 inform sponsored by the Department of Justice and written by the noncommercial group Shared Hope International.

Some 90 percent of runaways and children whose parents obligate them to yield bag start into the change and are ofttimes beaten, drugged, raped or imprisoned to obligate compliance, said a country of the inform which referred to Atlanta.

Pimps tattoo girls with "$" signs or the word "Daddy" and verify them to unknown cities where they are more vulnerable.

Typically, pimps recruit unwitting girls at shopping centers, mall events and on the Internet. Once ensnared, shame, emotion and psychological touching by pimps make it hornlike to fortuity free.

Clients, ofttimes titled "Johns", offer up with girls via the Internet, through hotels, massage parlors, field clubs and fellow services, the inform said.

"At preceding Super Bowls, pimps hired cab drivers to turn their vehicles into ambulatory brothels," said Deena Graves, chief administrator of female advocacy group Traffick911.

"We are expecting thousands of underage husbandly minors to be trafficked to the Super Bowl," says Nancy Rivard, originator of non-profit Airline Ambassadors International. Non-profit groups employed at the 2010 Super Bowl in Miami supplied the figure, she said.

RESCUE

Law enforcement agencies and advocacy groups rescued around 50 girls during the preceding digit Super Bowls, said Graves. Six were registered on the Center for Missing and Exploited Children website. One had been trafficked from Hawaii.

"Even digit rescue is considered a success," said Frundt who now advocates for exploited girls and has based a girls' treatment center and a safe house for girls in pedagogue D.C.

To fisticuffs the trade, authorities, female welfare advocates and the line business are collaborating.

Representatives from dweller Airlines, Delta, United, Quantas and dweller Eagle are retentive a training session to help them blot signs of trafficking. Rivard module also impact with another 100 grace crews to dispense materials on flights.

Some 67,000 people subscribed a petition on www.change.org anti stimulate trafficking as conception of a crusade by Traffick911 titled "I'm Not Buying It!" that is based by 60 nonprofits and faith-based groups.

That crusade has also attracted heavy hitters same metropolis Cowboy diplomatist Ratliff, a three-time Pro Bowler, who made a open assist declaration entitled "Real men don't acquire children. They don't acquire sex."

Ratliff, who himself has digit daughters, is recruiting another National Football League players for the campaign.

"You hear of stimulate trafficking overseas," he wrote in an telecommunicate from island where he is activity in the Pro Bowl. "But you never imagine it is happening in the United States."

(Editing by Matthew Bigg and Greg McCune)

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