Renting Lacy: The Shocking True Story of Child Prostitution in America - A Call to Action for Human Rights Advocates & Social Workers | Essential Reading for Awareness Campaigns & Policy Reform

Have you ever read a story that opens your eyes to an episode of human suffering in the past or in another land, a story that haunts you, with characters that live in your thoughts? This is one of those, except that it's not remote. It's now, and it's real, and it's happening here in our world, our country, our cities. I had no idea.Renting Lacy is short and so well written that it reads easily, although the subject is anything but easy. Children as young as 10 pressed into captive lives of prostitution — it sounds like a fringe underworld but the victims number in the hundreds of thousands. It's not just a crime, it's an entrenched, vigorous industry and difficult to break. Renting Lacy is well researched, with facts and figures and intertwined with fictionalized accounts of typical cases which make it real.It's sobering and could perhaps be depressing, but there is progress, there's hope, and there are things we can do -- such as encouraging others to read this book.Read this and it will haunt you, too. And you can no longer say, "I didn't know."