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Not even wild dogs could keep these cyclists from their cross-country goal: Raising awareness for human trafficking
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Not even wild dogs could keep these cyclists from their cross-country goal: Raising awareness for human trafficking

ByEyes on Trafficking News

YORKTOWN — The six bicyclists who pulled into Yorktown on Tuesday after a 3,775-mile cross-country journey specifically wanted to do something uncomfortable. They were riding for an uncomfortable cause, after all: the worldwide fight against human trafficking. And during 53 days on the road, they endured painful crashes, flat tires, aching body parts, dehydration, blistering…

Novel about protecting children tells harrowing tale | The Biblio File
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Novel about protecting children tells harrowing tale | The Biblio File

ByEyes on Trafficking News

“Don’t Mess With Me Texas: Based On The Satanic Panic, Child And Domestic Abuse And The Children’s Underground Network In The 1980’s” ($7.99 in paperback, self-published; also for Amazon Kindle), contains graphic descriptions of what the author calls “sexual child abuse,” “satanic ritual abuse,” and spousal abuse. It is not for the squeamish. Narrator Kiftin…

Central Coast residency program to train future doctors in caring for human trafficking victims
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Central Coast residency program to train future doctors in caring for human trafficking victims

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria has a new residency program to train future doctors on how to treat people who have suffered from human trafficking. The hospital said this program started in 2016 in Sacramento and has slowly expanded to Redding, Northridge, and now the Central Coast. The U.S. Department of Justice estimates…