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From the newsroom of the Washington Post,

this is Cleveland, some of the Washington Post.

It's Elan Nakashima with Washington Post.

This is Post Reports. I'm Martine Powers.

It's Friday, December 20th.

Today, how we judge the crimes of victims in the wake of Me Too,

and how high schoolers are learning about impeachment.

Is it a story about her or is it a story about how the world sees

as prosecution of sex trafficking victims or is it?

I think it's a story about like,

who is the victim here?

Jess Contrera is an enterprise reporter at the Washington Post.

This year, she's been writing a lot about teenagers, and most recently,

about teenagers and children who are victims of sex trafficking.

There's this phrase that's been used forever and ever.

Child prostitute, which under federal law, there's no such thing as a child prostitute.

A child, a minor, cannot consent to being bought or sold for sex.

And even though I think people know that, they still have this image in their mind of a teen girl

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