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‘People need to know what these guys have done’

By Jenifer B. McKim

 |  Globe Staff  

  October 10, 2010

It was one of the biggest child prostitution cases in state history, culminating last year in the conviction of six Boston pimps involved in a violent prostitution ring that enslaved girls from local neighborhoods. And the case would not have been won without Jessica. She was the first young prostitute to share her story with investigators and one of the terrified young witnesses whose court testimony was key to the convictions.

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