Ud Students Leading Fight Against Human Trafficking ; Efforts Continue After Ohio Lawmakers Adopt Bill Strengthening Penalties.

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Last year, Alisa Bartel jokingly became known as "the downer at the dinner table."

She regaled her University of Dayton roommates with the facts she was learning about human trafficking -- both in the classroom and in her new role as an activist. She peppered them with questions such as "Did you know that one-third of chocolate comes from the Ivory Coast -- and that they have slave labor?" until, after a while, they begged her to stop.

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Ud Students Leading Fight Against Human Trafficking ; Efforts Continue After Ohio Lawmakers Adopt Bill Strengthening Penalties.

"They didn't want to hear it," she said.

Lots of people don't want to hear about this modern-day form of slavery that by some estimates impacts 200,000 people in the United States. But Bartel has joined a group of UD students making sure that the public hears th...

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