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Phone App Being Developed To Help Stop Human Trafficking In New Jersey

There's a new app being developed to combat human trafficking in New Jersey.

Trey Boozier was a human trafficking victim when she was 16 years old and says it could happen to anyone.

"I was a straight and narrow kid, always went to school and still got trafficked."

Her trafficker was prosecuted but experts say that's rare. Head of the Global Center on Human Trafficking at Montclair State University Ali Boak says under three percent are not prosecuted because she feels officers need more education.

"Usually they don't know what to do so they just walk away. So that's how cases of human trafficking slip through the cracks because it's a very complex crime."

The University is partnering with Homeland security to develop a phone app for law enforcement on how to deal with potential human trafficking situations.