BY CARMEN FORMAN, Oklahoma Watch
A 15-year-old girl was working as a prostitute in Tulsa in September when she was arrested during a prostitution sting operation.
She had become a prostitute at a young age because she saw the practice as a way to get money and attention from men, a state law-enforcement official said.
The girl, who was taken to a Tulsa shelter, is a victim of a crime — human trafficking — that the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, legislators and others are trying to crack down on further.
This legislative session, lawmakers have introduced about a dozen bills that were drafted by the Bureau of Narcotics.
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