{"id":653,"date":"2010-05-22T13:48:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T13:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/05\/two-russian-women-duped-into-sex-slavery.html"},"modified":"2010-05-22T13:48:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T13:48:48","slug":"two-russian-women-duped-into-sex-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/05\/two-russian-women-duped-into-sex-slavery.html","title":{"rendered":"Two Russian women duped into sex slavery &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/154334\/Help-me-help-my-friend-in-DC\">&#8230; unless the Internet can save them!<\/a> Follow that link to a Metafilter thread in which a man engages his online community in an effort to try to save two Russian women he knows from meeting a job contact in New York &#8212; a man who is almost certainly a mobster intending to press them into sex slavery. Will they be able to stop the women from walking into this trap? You get the answer in real time. This thread is one of the most amazing things I&#8217;ve ever read on the Internet.<br \/>\n(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/thebrowser.com\/\">The Browser<\/a>).<br \/>\n<b>UPDATE:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newsweek.com\/blogs\/thehumancondition\/archive\/2010\/05\/21\/exclusive-the-hero-behind-the-metafilter-human-trafficking-rescue-speaks-out.aspx\">Newsweek follows up on the story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; unless the Internet can save them! 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