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April 18, 2021 Jose Alfaro says he was perfect prey for a sex trafficker because of the color of his skin. The Mexican American youth was 16 years old and homeless when he reached out for help on the internet more than a decade ago. He joined a gay chat room and met an older man named Jason Gandy who offered him empathy and a place to stay. “It seemed like a dream, and at the time, not having anywhere to go,” Alfaro says now. But the dream quickly became a grim reality. Gandy told Alfaro he would have to work in the older man’s “massage” business, which was a euphemism for prostitution. Alfaro provided sexual massages to Gandy’s clients in his Texas home in transactions that escalated to sexual assault. ....