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Human trafficking victim talks about her experience at Miami forum
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Human trafficking victim talks about her experience at Miami forum

ByEyes on Trafficking News

MIAMI – Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle held an annual trafficking forum on Wednesday and this year’s focus was on missing children from human trafficking. CBS4 talked with a young survivor who’s trying to fight the stigma of reporting the abuse. “The entire time you feel really guilty about how things happened,” Seanna Martinez…

Does the Superbowl lead to a spike in sex trafficking? – KIVI-TV
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Does the Superbowl lead to a spike in sex trafficking? – KIVI-TV

ByEyes on Trafficking News

With the big NFL game weekend here, there’s often a dark side that’s spoken of – and that’s sex trafficking. Contrary to popular belief, experts and advocacy groups say there is actually no evidence to support that the game leads to a spike in sex trafficking. Victim’s advocates, like Freedom Network USA, say the problem…

Sen. Mazie Hirono to bring Native Hawaiian sex trafficking survivor as State of the Union guest
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Sen. Mazie Hirono to bring Native Hawaiian sex trafficking survivor as State of the Union guest

ByEyes on Trafficking News

A human trafficking advocate and former victim herself will be Sen. Mazie Hirono’s guest to the State of the Union address Tuesday night. The senator announced that she would be bringing Kalei Grant, assistant coordinator of the Hawai’i Department of the Attorney General’s Missing Child Center-Hawaii, to the annual event. Hirono told NBC News in…

Not for sale: Valley sex trafficking survivor shares her story of survival
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Not for sale: Valley sex trafficking survivor shares her story of survival

ByEyes on Trafficking News

PHOENIX — A survivor of sex trafficking is sharing her heartbreaking story with 12News about her fight to find freedom after being sold back and forth for months. We’re protecting her identity as she describes the unbearable chapter of her life that left a lasting impact. The survivor explained there was little-to-no hope of ever…

Reality vs. Hype: Is the Super Bowl a major trafficking event?
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Reality vs. Hype: Is the Super Bowl a major trafficking event?

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Do many fans come to the Super Bowl with a pocket full of cash to buy sex? And do traffickers amp up their businesses to cater to this flash audience? These are provocative questions, for certain. You might call them headline-inducing, which could explain why you’ve probably seen a story (or ten) based on this premise in the last few days and years.