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Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book has filed a bill to close a legal loophole in the fight against human trafficking that has allowed hotels and massage establishments to avoid paying fines for repeated failure to post awareness materials and provide trafficking awareness training to employees. SB 692 builds off important work done by Leader Book…
Human trafficking occurs in every corner of Houston, and no neighborhood is immune. Unbound Now Houston Executive Director Kerri Taylor paints the picture of human trafficking in Houston. “I don’t know if we are one or two, but we are definitely a hub. Every bit as much as LA, Miami, or New York. And it is partly…
Florida’s eight Democratic members of Congress called on Gov. Ron DeSantis and state legislative leaders Wednesday to reform state laws to protect children from sex trafficking, citing a South Florida Sun Sentinel investigation, Innocence Sold, published late last year. In a letter, the delegation asked for “immediate action,” saying they were writing to “express our…
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…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A first-of-its kind home in Louisville will provide a safe haven for survivors of human trafficking. That’s what Cindy Crawford envisions for the new home. “They’ll take a shower, sleep in a warm bed, they’ll have love and all the food they need,” Crawford said. Crawford is the founder and executive…
EDITOR’S NOTE: USA TODAY does not name victims of sexual violence. Massage workers in this story are referred to by their spa nicknames or their initials. Shirley had been in Baltimore for only a few weeks when she was arrested. She mostly remembers how loud the police were. How rough. She was living and working at…
A woman in her 20s was run over by a car by a 30-year-old Boston man she once considered her boyfriend when she attempted to leave after being sex trafficked, according to court documents. Leon Blount III, 30, of Boston, was indicted Thursday and charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, and three…
A Boston man was indicted Friday for allegedly sex trafficking a young adult and a teenager, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts. Leon Blount III, 30, allegedly pressured, threatened, and transported the young woman over the course of about a year to take part in pornography and engage in commercial sex for his…
Expert to speak on human trafficking Dear Editor: January is National Human Trafficking Awareness month, and the Flagler Tiger Bay Club welcomes Tomas Lares, award-winning advocate and leader of United Abolitionists, as our luncheon speaker at the Hammock Dunes Club on Thursday, Jan. 19. We don’t see much human trafficking in Flagler County, just like…
BOSTON – A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment yesterday charging a Boston man with sex trafficking a young adult victim and transporting a minor to New York and Connecticut to engage in commercial sex. Leon Blount III, 30, of Boston, was charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, and three counts…
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