ROME - Elizabeth, a 20-year-old West African, believed she was coming to Europe to study medicine on a scholarship. Instead she was forced into prostitution on a Rome street.
Elizabeth had the courage to break free, asking for help from a police officer who got her into a shelter that helps women escaping the sex trade to build new lives.
Her change of fortune was made possible by an uncommon Italian law aimed at combating human traffickers who force young women from poor countries to sell their bodies to pay for their passage - usually illegal and often perilous - into Western Europe.
While some other European nations also have laws to help trafficked …
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