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In the trafficking sting in Martin County, meanwhile, there were no individuals charged with human trafficking, only with prostitution. The owner of Orchids of Asia, Hua Zhang, was charged with deriving support from the proceeds of prostitution, soliciting another to commit prostitution, renting space to be used for prostitution, and maintaining a house of prostitution. The vast majority of the arrests in both counties were of men soliciting prostitutes. On CNN, Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said police are trying to figure out why women would “go and allow themselves to be trafficked.”
While it has only been a few days since the arrests were announced and further charges are possible, the stings were months in the making, so law enforcement agencies simply may not have enough evidence for trafficking charges. Sex-worker-rights advocates say it is very common for police to overstate their findings in trafficking stings. “Our legislators and law enforcement have been led to believe that sex trafficking is huge in Florida, but studies have shown that because sex trafficking and sex work is being conflated all the time,” said Alex Andrews, a sex worker in the Orlando area and an advocate with the Sex Workers Outreach Project.
While the overall sting is a big hit to the mega churches and the people who go to them to contribute to the sheriff's political campaigns (sheriffs run for office in FL), there's a bigger public distinction b/t consensual adults negotiating getting a beanie after a tug at a whore den......and someone who was forced to give said beanie, against their will. 
The news report mentions that the older women running the shop serviced Kraft, but that doesn’t mean that they also don’t traffick younger women who also service customers, which experts from various agencies, both in law enforcement and non-profit aid and intervention agencies, have publicly reported. So, where are you getting your information to make the general statement that I have bolded?Quote: