was arrested in February for trafficking a mentally handicapped teen, including driving the 12-year-old to hotels to have sex with men for money.

We have to come together, community by community and city by city, to set a zero-tolerance standard for this kind of behavior among our neighbors and leaders alike.

They can even be celebrities. In April, "Smallville" actress Allison Mack pled guilty for her role in a sex trafficking case, admitted to recruiting women to a mentorship group, where they ended up being forced or coerced into sex.

Traffickers can also be parents. In February, an 8-year-old girl testified that her father had sold her for sex in exchange for drugs. In a criminal complaint retrieved by the Albuquerque Journal, “I keep saying I don’t want to, but he... forces me to.” Many times, these traffickers are not outed until years later. Children often only come out with their stories as adults. A Louisiana woman recently came out with her story of being sold for sex by her father at age 4. An Indianapolis man only began sharing his story when he became a father of three; he described being trafficked out of hotel rooms at the Indianapolis 500 before he was even a teenager.

Sex trafficking can happen in any neighborhood, even the "safest" ones. It doesn’t discriminate. All of our children are at risk.

Rescuing victims like these begins with awareness. Those who spend a lot of time with children – like parents, teachers, coaches, mentors and doctors – are also in a position to identify