Loss of Innocents

Thirteen year-old Lucy Williamson is tricked by her nanny into entering a brothel, where she finds herself imprisoned. This is a factual story of one of the most tumultuous periods in English history, during which it was the center of the worldwide trafficking in white slavery. For over one hundred years, the age of consent in England was twelve, then thirteen, and 3,000 to 4,000 young girls were lured or abducted from the streets of London each year, destined to spend the remainder of thei...