To play the devil's advocate: How is this related to technology news?

I don't come here to be depressed, thank you very much.

Really really sad that the article starts off with a sexualized image representing a girl that's being trafficked.

If there wasn't a creepy dude in the background then the photo could be mistaken for one of the ads in Vanity Fair of a model.

One would expect that a site aimed at hackers would be panning this article rather than linking to it, considering that A) hackers of all people know better than to believe what the government and mainstream media report as true, and B) that there are more than just a few call girls, researchers and researchers who used to be call girls reporting across the internet on the wild exaggerations and outright lies which have gone into this modern revival of the "white slavery" moral panic of 100 years ago.

Not HN material.