Clearwater criticized in study on child sex trafficking

It doesn't matter how many National Studies they put together in the US, until victims are treated like victims and the numbers will never be right. One thing for sure when the police bring in a 12 year old child...

THE JOURNAL OF STEFFANIE RIVERS: Double Standards

" I don’t make it a habit of recommending movies for entertainment purposes because most of them are a waste of time and money. But the movie Taken is the latest depiction of child abuse that targets teenage...

5 defendants convicted of sex trafficking for forcing Guatemalan

Five defendants, all members or associates of an extended family, face potential life prison sentences after being found guilty this afternoon of international sex trafficking for participating in a scheme that lured young Central American women and girls into the Los Angeles...

The Sex Workers Project Increase Protection on Trafficked Persons

Wednesday, in the waning days of the 110th Congress, the House and Senate passed the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, a bill which increases protections for people coerced into all forms of labor, including sex work. ...

AT HEARING,TEEN TELLS OF PROSTITUTION TRAFFICKING

At hearing, teen tells of prostitution trafficking The girl was 15 when she ran away from the Wichita Children's Home, and she said her only solace and security came with the man who put her on the streets of...

Sex scandal rocks Kashmir

"For an area wracked for decades by terrorism, civil war, invasion and life on the razor's edge between Pakistan and India, the disputed region of Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir ought to have enough trouble. But in recent months the conservative area has been preoccupied...

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