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The global crisis of human trafficking sadly hits closer to home than one might think. Monica Watkins knows this all too well. She is the co-founder of Beauty For Freedom (BFF), a non-profit organization that empowers young survivors of human trafficking through creative art therapy. “A two-year study revealed that 40% of sex trafficking victims…
Click a link below to jump to a particular article or scroll down to read the whole blog post. Please Advocate for SF 340: The Iowa Safe Harbor Bill The NAHT Legislative Committee led by Maggie Tinsman is asking you to please advocate for this Safe Harbor Bill, which has been introduced into the Iowa…
Tish Young of Cedar Rapids has spent more than eight years volunteering with Chains Interrupted, a nonprofit that combats human trafficking. Young received an award on Jan. 12 from the Iowa Network Against Human Trafficking for her work. (Submitted) Tish Young, (second from the left) poses with other volunteers with Chains Interrupted, a nonprofit that…
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…
Aid workers ‘tortured their HIV+ foster son, 10, by keeping him naked and feeding him only cold food’ American’s Nicholas Spencer and his wife Mackenzie Leigh Mathias Spencer are accused of torturing their foster child in Uganda The couple was hit with a new trafficking charge that carries the death penalty US Embassy in Kampala said it…
Story by Bevan Hurley • Nov 17 Read original story here. A Texas mother who asked her misbehaving eight-year-old son to walk half a mile home through a quiet suburban neighbourhood says her life was upended after she was charged with child endangerment. Mother-of-three Heather Wallace, 37, a qualified teacher and child sleep therapist, faced up to 20 years…
When a 20-year-old man with autism went missing, a Florida woman and her sister told police that he had been kidnapped by a transgender gang who wanted to harvest and sell his organs. It turned out …
Pieper Lewis, who killed her alleged rapist in 2020, received a deferred judgment from Polk County District Judge David Porter after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter and willful injury. Lewis is just one of several teenagers — often of color — who have been legally penalized or convicted of killing their sex trafficker or assaulter…
Editor’s note: PLEASE TELL YOUR PARENTS OR ELDERLY PERSONS YOU KNOW. Their savings might be at risk. Better to be safe and get educated about these types of scams. “Pig-butchering” online scams have grown from continued poverty and corruption. And they prey on our vulnerabilities. This specific type of labor trafficking essentially creates a Ponzi…
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