A woman who claims she was sex trafficked through a Nevada brothel filed a federal lawsuit that seeks to overturn the state’s legalized prostitution. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court in Reno, argues that legal brothels contradict two federal laws that criminalize human trafficking across state lines for the purpose of commercial sex acts. The state of Nevada, the Legislature and Gov. Steve Sisolak are named as defendants. Rebekah Charleston, the plaintiff now does anti-prostitution advocacy work. She alleges in the lawsuit that a man she considered her boyfriend trafficked her for “purposes of commercial sexual exploitation,” which included a stint working at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Northern Nevada. Her trafficker eventually brought her to Las Vegas, where she worked illegally as a prostitute. She says she was either forced or manipulated into sex work.