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Law enforcement agencies are rethinking the way officers treat victims of human trafficking, and more changes are needed, a retired Missouri state trooper said Thursday in Longview. Daniel Nash, co-founder of the Human Trafficking Training Center, was one of several speakers at the “Too Close to Home: Uniting Against Human Trafficking” seminar at Maude Cobb…
The undercover investigation began last month after the 16-year-old girl at the Community Intervention Center in Oklahoma City said she was a victim of human trafficking. A lot of “bad stuff” had been done to her, she told agents with the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control. She said she had been “dogged…
Police and community agencies in York Region are raising awareness about the dangers of human trafficking. A human trafficking awareness event was set up at the Central York Fire Services station in …
Editor’s note: We are non-partisan. Children are being hurt. Please, watch, read, learn, and act accordingly. Hearing Date: Wednesday 04/26/2023 – 3:00 PM Hearing Location: 2141 Rayburn House Office Building The hearing, “The Biden Border Crisis: Exploitation of Unaccompanied Alien Children,” will examine the unprecedented surge of unaccompanied alien children at the southwest border and…
Editor’s note: I just returned from northern California (6/2023), speaking with experts with ties into the situation with legal growers. Human trafficking is happening in legal and illegal cannabis farms. TRINITY COUNTY, Calif. — If you buy weed illegally, you unwittingly could be supporting Mexican cartels and other criminal syndicates that lure workers to farms…
The U.S. State Department considers human trafficking a form of “modern slavery.” It happens when a person is forced to work or perform sex acts under threat of violence, often through coercion and fraud. Worldwide, over 27 million people are trafficked every day — and 90% of female victims are sexually exploited. In Virginia, the…
Advocates and lawmakers found some hotels continued to fall out of compliance without consequences. TAMPA, Fla. — Preventing human trafficking has been a major priority in the Sunshine State over the last several years. From the attorney general to local law enforcement agencies, crackdowns, awareness campaigns and help for survivors have been key talking points….
Lana Saunders, chair of the Anti-Human Trafficking Working Group, holds the new Human Trafficking Protocol in Kingston, on Wednesday. Photo by Steph Crosier /The Whig-Standard Had police asked Alexandra Stevenson who controlled her money while she was with her ex-boyfriend in 2007, a switch may have clicked. Had they asked how she decided what to…
Videos circulating on TikTok might make you think the kidnappers are lurking behind every corner. A new trend on the popular social-media platform has young people warning about human trafficking and how to avoid becoming a victim. Some of the videos describe down-to-earth scenarios women face when out and about. For example, one TikTokker describes…
For eight months, Julio worked as a landscaper in Western Massachusetts, hauling rocks, digging ditches and pulling weeds about 70 hours a week, earning less than two dollars an hour. At night, tired and hungry, the Guatemalan immigrant would be driven back to his employer’s suburban home, where he would head down to the basement…
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