More than 60,000 kids across the country are unaccounted for by the child welfare system that is supposed to protect them. (Dallas News/Washington Post 2018)

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"Most of the children who are being bought and sold for sex in our nation are foster care children," human rights attorney Malika Saada Saar writes. "Our very broken foster care system has become a supply chain to traffickers." In one of many examples, a national FBI raid to recover child sex-trafficking victims found that 60 percent of the children came from foster care.