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SAN MATEO — Human trafficking happens every day in neighborhoods across the state and it goes barely noticed, but woman who spent more than a decade trapped in that world is now doing something about it. “I was trafficked when I was 15 and I had three different traffickers,” Elizabeth Quiroz told KPIX. “I was…
This post is co-written by Brittany Blevins, an MPH Student at the University of Southern California. The pervasiveness of human trafficking juxtaposed with its concealed nature can often make it difficult for victims to be identified in a clinical setting. There is no single manifestation of symptoms or diagnostic tools available to readily alert providers…
A sex worker gestures flirtatiously to passing men as she stands outside a dilapidated multi-storey building on Nugget Street in Johannesburg’s Hillbrow area. “It’s not like a hotel, [there are] no bookings. They just come, we do business and they leave,” she said while waiting to do “business”. It has been a slow day, she…
Her story is one of second chances. A 58-year-old woman who served time for crimes she committed while being human trafficked was pardoned by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Leslie King’s attorney believes she may be the first human trafficking survivor to receive a pardon from the governor. Her story is important because there are many…
A year ago, Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams announced the creation of a human trafficking task force to fight commercial sex exploitation. And in that year, the task force made more than two-dozen arrests, focusing almost exclusively on men who buy sex. In the task force’s first sting, more than 100 people responded to…
Leslie King. Courtesy Warner Norcross + Judd Thanks to the work of a Warner partner, Sacred Beginnings founder Leslie King’s record has been expunged, setting her free to pursue higher education. A pro bono team of Warner Norcross + Judd attorneys helped secure what is believed to be Michigan’s first gubernatorial pardon of a survivor…
Melody Stone calls herself a “modern day abolitionist.” She’s also one of the soldiers in an army Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate says is fighting human trafficking in the state. Stone was one of six Iowans, also including the ninth-grade teacher of Des Moines trafficking victim Pieper Lewis, who were honored in an Iowa…
Melody Stone calls herself a “modern day abolitionist.” She’s also one of the soldiers in an army Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate says is fighting human trafficking in the state. Stone was one of six Iowans, also including the ninth-grade teacher of Des Moines trafficking victim Pieper Lewis, who were honored in an Iowa…
This article discusses information about human trafficking and abuse. If you or someone you know has been a victim of abuse or human trafficking, you can call the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888 for confidential support. WISCONSIN — There were about 24.9 million victims of human trafficking in 2016, according to estimates from the…
This article is an update to “Psychiatrists’ Response to Human Trafficking.” Human trafficking is defined as using force, fraud, or coercion to compel a person into commercial sex acts or labor against their will.1 Minors involved in commercial sex are always considered trafficked under US federal law. The Action-Means-Purpose (AMP) Model illustrates the definition of…
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