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NORTH COUNTY — A longtime Del Mar Union school board member resigned Thursday hours after officials announced he had been arrested in Florida on suspicion of soliciting prostitution. Scott Wooden, 60, was one of 213 people arrested during a seven-day operation — dubbed Operation Traffic Stop — that aimed to crack down on human trafficking in Polk…
Published 12:05 pm Tuesday, February 14, 2023 Fundraiser, groundbreaking are planned MILL SPRING–Neighbors in the vicinity of 2281 Pea Ridge Rd. in Mill Spring, about a mile from the Tryon International Equestrian Center, have been seeing and hearing activity on the 152-acre property for some weeks now. In seven phases over the next 15…
Click a link below to jump to a particular article or scroll down to read the whole blog post. Court Hearing for Child Sex Trafficking Victim Pieper Lewis Rescheduled for March 23rd. Could be Sentenced to Serve up to 20 Years in Iowa Prison Des Moines sex trafficking victim Pieper Lewis, who got a deferred…
Addressing the wickedness of slavery in 1850, the great American abolitionist Frederick Douglass said the practice “violates the great law of liberty, written on every human heart.” Further, he said, it “contravenes the laws of eternal justice, and tramples in the dust all the humane and heavenly precepts of the New Testament.” In 1865, America…
We Need Your Support to End Slavery on November 29th Giving Tuesday Dear dedicated anti-slavery activists, tomorrow, November 29th is Giving Tuesday and we need your help. This is our once-a-year solicitation of our 1500 blog subscribers and other anti-trafficking advocates to contribute to the statewide work of the Iowa NAHT. This year on this…
Pieper Lewis, who killed her alleged rapist in 2020, received a deferred judgment from Polk County District Judge David Porter after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter and willful injury. Lewis is just one of several teenagers — often of color — who have been legally penalized or convicted of killing their sex trafficker or assaulter…
This is the total at 11:56pm CST on Sept 15, 2022. Pieper Lewis By Stacy M. Brown, Senior National Correspondent, NNPA Newswire Pieper Lewis had never known freedom and had never enjoyed the support and guidance necessary for children to succeed. The 17-year-old child trafficking victim who murdered her rapist and tormentor pleaded guilty to…
A teenage human trafficking victim in Iowa who stabbed her accused rapist to death has avoided prison time, but was ordered to pay $150,000 to the man’s family. Pieper Lewis, 17, pleaded guilty last year to voluntary manslaughter and willful injury over the 2020 death of 37-year-old Zachary Brooks, according to multiple outlets. Both crimes…
A Florida sheriff said that his department “always” caught Disney employees during undercover operations, while revealing the results of a week-long investigation into human trafficking. The large investigation, known as “Fall Haul 2,” was spearheaded by the Polk County Police Department and involved a week-long sting operation in central Florida that netted over 150 arrests….
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is working to expand its anti-human trafficking efforts, and several nonprofit organizations have stepped up to the plate to help. What You Need To Know The Polk County Sheriff’s Office is working to expand its anti-human trafficking efforts Several area nonprofit organizations have said they would join with the department…
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