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A Columbus attorney is alleging major hotel chains know or should know about sex trafficking happening on their properties, and he’s filing several lawsuits in federal court against them. One of the hotels he’s suing is Red Roof Inn, based in New Albany. According to Sgt. Dana Hess, the director of the Central Ohio Human…
On Aug. 28, police say they were contacted to check the welfare of a female in the area of Wellington road and Bradley Avenue. A female was located and reportedly told police she was being held against her will by a man in a hotel room. The man was found nearby and arrested without incident….
WASHINGTON – The American Hotel & Lodging Foundation (AHLA Foundation) today announced a $500,000 donation from Hilton Global Foundation to support the No Room for Trafficking (NRFT) Survivor Fund as part of the hotel industry’s united efforts to eradicate human trafficking. The NRFT Survivor Fund will equip community-based organizations with the resources they need to engage and…
The odds of becoming a human trafficking victim at the hands of a lover or family are far greater than conspiracy theories and Hollywood depictions of abductions lead many to believe. That’s the word from experts seeking to dispel widely held misconceptions about the hidden-in-plain-sight underworld of human trafficking that continues to plague Long Island,…
The state of Massachusetts is yet to make a single forced labor conviction since a human trafficking law was passed, despite more than 180 allegations reported — and likely many more unreported — since 2016, according to a GBH News investigation as part of Trafficking Inc. Government officials and advocates told GBH News that victims…
Press release from the Montana Attorney General’s Office HELENA – A Billings man was sentenced today to life in prison for kidnapping minors, transporting a person for illegal sexual activity, and drug trafficking and firearms crimes following an investigation by the Montana Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI). “As a result of the…
Mitzi Perdue, widow of the late Frank Perdue — former CEO of Perdue Farms — is heiress to the Sheraton Hotels fortune and is a self-described human rights activist. Recently she was invited to Ukraine as a special guest of the Kyiv police force, Fox News Digital is told, where she saw firsthand how the…
The sexual abuse was so prevalent when Kat Wehunt was growing up in Florida that she thought it happened in all families. Then a relative began to sell her for sex. And then he made her take drugs and pimped her to golfers at a club where he worked. The last time Wehunt, now 28,…
Editor’s note: this is from A Better World Canada. This morning we left Kigali and are traveling to Gisenyi to visit one of our projects for children with disabilities. On our Journey, we stopped to visit a project started by a group of Rwandan youth. The organization is called “Past Initiatives” and Christian, the President…
Listen to original here. LEILA FADEL, HOST: Greselda De Leon says she came to Boston to make money for her family in the Philippines but was treated like a slave. Jenifer McKim from our partner station GBH News reports De Leon’s story is more common in the United States than most people understand. JENIFER MCKIM,…
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