A bucolic new rehab center for local child sex trafficking victims

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Hope Refuge, founded by Sally and Chuck Cook (pictured), aims to provide a safe place where child survivors of the commercial sex industry can be restored and healed. Photo credit: Carolina Starin/KCRW

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Carolina Starin