Prostitution is a dark world most people never see. Thursday, United States Attorney Joe Stecher showed us an even darker side of this world. It is the world where he says people like 28-year-old Amar Henderson traffic children for sex and then prostitute them for money.

Joe Stecher says, "This individual prayed upon these young girls. He used them. He abused them."

Henderson now faces three federal charges for trafficking minors for prostitution. Prosecutors say Henderson trafficked children from Omaha into Colorado, Iowa, Florida and Missouri from April of 2007 through May of 2008.

Stecher says Henderson is alleged to have transported the girls across state lines for the purpose of pimping them out.

Dr. Linda Burkle works for Salvation Army and is an expert on human trafficking. She says this crime is happening everywhere, in every state, and every country.

Dr. Linda Burkle says, "In 2008, we have more people that are enslaved than any other time in the history of this world."

Burkle says this indictment names three children victims, but there are between 200,000 and 300,000 more children victims out there.

Burkle says trafficking is the third most lucrative business in the world behind drugs and weapons. She says most children trafficked are either eleven or twelve-years-old and become victims as either runaways or as children whose parents simply don't care.

Prosecutors say Henderson found children of both types, physically abused them, and then sold them off for financial gain.

Stecher says if Henderson is convicted he could face a minimum of ten years in Federal Prison. Stecher says the facts of the case warrant more than that amount of prison time and that's exactly what the United States attorney will be asking for.