Sex With a Minor

Idaho Republicans Want to Charge People With “Human Trafficking” for Helping Minors to …
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Idaho Republicans Want to Charge People With “Human Trafficking” for Helping Minors to …

Republican lawmakers in Idaho want to expand the definition of “human trafficking” to include helping a minor get an abortion. The bill, which was introduced Tuesday, would prohibit “recruiting, harboring, or transporting” a person under the age of 18 to get an abortion or abortion medication, either in Idaho or out of state. It would…

Idaho Republicans Want to Charge People With “Human Trafficking” for Helping Minors to Get an Abortion
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Idaho Republicans Want to Charge People With “Human Trafficking” for Helping Minors to Get an Abortion

Republican lawmakers in Idaho want to expand the definition of “human trafficking” to include helping a minor get an abortion. The bill, which was introduced Tuesday, would prohibit “recruiting, …

Pasco sheriff: 12 arrested on human trafficking charges after 16-year-old girl suffers abuse
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Pasco sheriff: 12 arrested on human trafficking charges after 16-year-old girl suffers abuse

12 people facing human trafficking charges Aaron Mesmer reports NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. – Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco announced the arrests of 12 people Wednesday following a human trafficking investigation that centered around a 16-year-old girl who suffered abuse at every turn. According to the sheriff, the teenager ran away from home in late…

Teen Human Trafficking Victim Spent 2 Weeks ‘In Hell:’ Pasco Sheriff
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Teen Human Trafficking Victim Spent 2 Weeks ‘In Hell:’ Pasco Sheriff

NEW PORT RICHEY, FL — A 16-year-old New Port Richey girl is now receiving counseling at a center for victims of human trafficking after a two-week ordeal in which at least 12 men and a woman had sex with her, plied her with drugs and arranged for her to perform at men’s strip clubs in…

How sex trafficking survivors, law enforcement are working to combat an 'invisible crime'
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How sex trafficking survivors, law enforcement are working to combat an 'invisible crime'

Sex trafficking in Minnesota is a crime hiding in plain sight. “I was exploited into sex trafficking at the age of 14,” says Flora Whitfield, with the trafficking survivor-led support group Breaking Free. “A kid that is a runaway will be more likely to be picked up by a trafficker before law enforcement within 48…

President gives assent to Haryana law declaring child marriages void – Tribune India
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President gives assent to Haryana law declaring child marriages void – Tribune India

PTI New Delhi, September 27 President Droupadi Murmu has given her assent to a legislation of Haryana under which every child marriage that has been solemnised will be considered as “void ab initio” (having no legal effect from inception), thus making a marital relationship between a man and a girl aged between 15 and 18…

100 Years in Prison for Notorious Sex Offender in Kenya
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100 Years in Prison for Notorious Sex Offender in Kenya

NAIROBI, KENYA ­­­- On Thursday, August 4, 2022, a Kenyan court sentenced a notorious sex offender to 100 years in prison for sexually abusing four minors under his care. For years, the perpetrator, who is the director of a children’s home, preyed on orphans, street children, and other impoverished children, promising to send them to…

Thousand Oaks man charged with human trafficking, sex crimes with minors
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Thousand Oaks man charged with human trafficking, sex crimes with minors

A 41-year-old Thousand Oaks man has been charged with a range of sex crimes, including human trafficking and possessing child pornography, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office. Robert Ryan McGraa pleaded not guilty to one count of human trafficking, three counts of possessing child pornography and one count of misdemeanor child-luring during an arraignment…

One Arrested for Soliciting Sex with a Minor During Undercover Operation in St. Paul, Minnesota
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One Arrested for Soliciting Sex with a Minor During Undercover Operation in St. Paul, Minnesota

​ST. PAUL — One man is facing felony charges following his arrest for attempting to solicit a minor for sex. Investigators with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA)-led Human Trafficking Investigators Task Force, the East Metro Sex Trafficking Task Force (EMSTTF), the Tribes United Against Sex Trafficking (TRUST) Task Force and the Anoka County Sheriff’s…

Child sex trafficking ‘mastermind’ sentenced to federal prison with other conspirators – Charleston Post Courier
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Child sex trafficking ‘mastermind’ sentenced to federal prison with other conspirators – Charleston Post Courier

MYRTLE BEACH — The “mastermind” of a multistate child sex trafficking conspiracy was sentenced to federal prison on June 23 along with three related conspirators. The 26-year-old ringleader, Hart William Grow of Surprise, Arizona, was convicted of running a trafficking scheme that involved at least two minors from South Carolina. He is also alleged to…