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Three young Hungarian men have helped dismantle an American gay prostitution ring that enslaved them, marking a victory for local prosecutors but highlighting the difficulty in reaching and helping male trafficking victims, campaigners said. The men told the court how they were lured to the United States in with the promise of well-paid escort jobs but found themselves held as sex slaves and abused daily.

Gay sex slave trial exposes hardships of male trafficking victims

Another victim described being haunted by his 17 months in captivity when he was raped, starved, and sleep-deprived. Red flags might include girls arrested for shoplifting male lubricants or family disputes in which teens will not disclose to their parents how they got expensive gifts.

The prosecutors also may add charges of racketeering to enhance penalties for traffickers, she said. Vass and two other Hungarian nationals were accused of racketeering, human trafficking and profiting from prostitution for luring Hungarian men to gay United States through a website called GayRomeo.

The two other men are due to go on trial next year. Their attorneys were not available for comment. The men they lured from Hungary believed they would be in well-paid, legal jobs in the United States as escorts, prosecutors said, and could go home after a few months. But when they arrived inthey were kept as slaves in New York and later in Florida, forced into prostitution and to perform on web cams.

The captors allegedly threatened to kill them or hurt their families in Hungary, prosecutors said. I felt worthless, unwanted and felt I could never face my family again. The three men were arrested in He said such victims often struggle with their own sexuality and self-worth, and may find it hard to admit they are victims while under pressure to meet certain standards of masculinity.

More than 4, human trafficking cases were reported in in the United States with about one in 10 involving men, according to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center. There is slave such a stigma attached to male victimization. Miami-Dade Corrections.