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GRANT, Mich. — A Philadelphia man is behind bars in Michigan after he tried to meet up with a teenager from Grant, police said on Friday afternoon. According to the Grant Police Department, a 16-year-old student spoke with the school resource officer right after attending a human trafficking prevention seminar at the school. “Recently one…
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WBRC) – The West Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force broke a major case – 15 arrests. Investigators say their charges range from prostitution to drugs and human trafficking allegedly involving commercial sex. Read the original story here. The pain is unspeakable, long-lasting with no easy fix. But investigator Jessica Wilson says there is…
San Joaquin Regional Transit District (RTD) hosted its first Human Trafficking Awareness and Prevention workshop at its Downtown Transit Center on Jan. 11. Representatives from the Women’s Center – Youth and Family Services (WCYFS) and the Stockton Police Department’s VICE unit spoke to RTD employees about identifying signs of human trafficking and what steps they…
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…
Mary McDowell stood before an audience and spoke openly about one of the most harrowing chapters of her life — her experience with human trafficking. Hannah House Ministries, a nonprofit organization that serves as a maternity home for women facing unplanned pregnancies, hosted an event Wednesday on trafficking at Pine Tree Church of Christ in Longview….
The ISU Gender Resource Center will host its 2023 Anti-Human Trafficking Symposium on January 24, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., in the Wood and Little Wood River Rooms of the Pond Student Union. Human trafficking spans the United States and occurs in every state, including Idaho. There is a network of people that target…
“Breaking the Chains: Uncovering the Dark Reality of Human Trafficking in Grand Rapids” Photo by Hermes Rivera on Unsplash Human trafficking is a dark and heinous crime that has been occurring in Grand Rapids for far too long. The city is known for its bustling downtown and friendly community, but behind the façade lies a…
Meghan Lundstrom speaks at the Battlement to the Bells Anti-Human Trafficking Summit Jan. 10, 2020. This year, the summit’s public training was removed, and the Human Trafficking Prevention Month training focused on law enforcement prevention. Thomas Phippen/Post Independent January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Nationwide, law enforcement agencies strategize year-round to combat human trafficking. Locally,…
Sex worker says ex-Virginia police chief and three other retired cops paid for prostitution and protected a human-trafficking ring that coerced her into the industry from Costa Rica A Costa Rican woman sex worker, identified as Jane Doe, alleged in a lawsuit that four Fairfax, Virginia, officers protected a local sex ring and paid for…
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – A pediatric emergency physician outlined case-based human trafficking examples during a virtual conference Thursday. “She is poorly clothed. She has bruises around her face and chest with a tattoo of a male name across her chest and is not willing to say what happened…” Dr. Allie Hurst said. But the…
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