Illinois Department of Children and Family Services

Advocate calls DCFS handling of trafficking victims 'gruesome' – CBS News
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Advocate calls DCFS handling of trafficking victims 'gruesome' – CBS News

ByEyes on Trafficking News

CHICAGO (CBS) — A member of the U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking is speaking out about the treatment of foster children by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). Brenda Myers-Powell was outraged to learn DCFS approved sending a teenage sex trafficking victim to live with a man whom court records describe…

Aurora residents sent to prison for child labor trafficking – Daily Herald
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Aurora residents sent to prison for child labor trafficking – Daily Herald

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Two Aurora residents have been sentenced to 6½ years in prison by a federal judge in Chicago for child labor trafficking. Santos Teodoro Ac-Salazar, 27, and Olga Choc Laj, 34, who are Guatemalan nationals, admitted they entered the United States unlawfully with two children, ages 10 and 15, who were not their own, according to…

Illinois recognizes January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month
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Illinois recognizes January as Human Trafficking Awareness Month

ByEyes on Trafficking News

  January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month, and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is partnering with The Power Project to train group home and residential care facility staff across Illinois on how to identify, intervene and prevent human trafficking among their youth in treatment. Nearly 1,000 congregate care staff in 37 facilities…