Seven people in total were indicted in two separate human trafficking rings in North and South Jersey, the attorney general's office announced Tuesday.

New Jersey's top law enforcement official says authorities took down two human trafficking rings, including one that was forcing children as young as 13 to have sex with adults for money.

Seven people were indicted in connection to two separate human trafficking rings in New Jersey, officials announced Tuesday.

In one trafficking ring, suspects lied to victims to lure them to a brothel, prosecutors said. In the other, suspects advertised sex with minors, according to prosecutors.

A brothel in Bridgeton falsely recruited women to serve as dancers and then forced them to have sex with paying men, investigators say.

One of the sex trafficking rings used violence, including beatings with an electrical cord, to control victims as young as 13, authorities alleged.

In the Bridgeton case, a new group of victims were allegedly brought to a house on a weekly basis and instructed not to leave.

Two alleged sex-trafficking rings — including one whose victims were as young as 13 — have been busted in New Jersey, leading to the indictment of seven people.

The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General says the rings were operating in Cumberland and Essex counties. The New Jersey Office of the Attorney General says that seven men and women were indicted in two separate human trafficking rings in northern and southern New Jersey, one of them involving children.