Virginia Gang forces Prostitution

In Virginia, a street gang has forced high school girls between sixteen and eighteen to participate in a prostitution ring. Many of the girls, when reluctant or when trying to quit, have been beaten, cut, or threatened. The girls, as a test, have been forced to have sex with the leader, Strom, or any of the members and then forced to go to apartment complexes to solicit work. 11 gang members have been charged with sex trafficking. This is sad, that high school girls are being forced to be prostitutes, when they have so much potential. I wonder if they ever told authorities, or tried to. Hopefully, people are alert to situations like this and will be ready to help. I wonder what happened to the people who accepted the prostitutes' work. Hopefully, the girls threatened will be cared for and not punished.