Victim-Blaming

Virginia Prosecutor’s Human Trafficking Toolkit
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Virginia Prosecutor’s Human Trafficking Toolkit

Download Toolkit PDF here Since 2007, over 3,500 trafficking victims have been identified in the Commonwealth of Virginia, resulting in 1,689 cases of human trafficking. Victims in these cases ranged from minors to adults, males to females, and victims of both labor and sex trafficking. This toolkit is intended to be a resource to help…

Critical farm workers often trapped, exploited – Plymouth Review
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Critical farm workers often trapped, exploited – Plymouth Review

Immigrants, most of them undocumented, now perform 80% of the labor on Wisconsin dairy farms. There is a fascinating, human story in the relationship between the Mexican workers who come here to earn money to build homes and businesses back in Mexico and the farmers who depend on their labor on Wisconsin dairy farms. I…

Training observers to spot, blow whistle on child trafficking and child abuse – NOLA.com
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Training observers to spot, blow whistle on child trafficking and child abuse – NOLA.com

Hope House in Covington recently presented a free Human Trafficking Identification and Response Training session. This is the second year it has been held in observance of January, which is Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Hope House Child Trafficking Specialist Heather Denenea, who conducts forensic interviews with youth at the Children’s Advocacy Center in Covington, told…

“My story can change things” – Pieper Lewis, September 13th 2022
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“My story can change things” – Pieper Lewis, September 13th 2022

Joint statement regarding the sentencing of Piper Lewis prepared by the Iowa Network Against Human Trafficking and Slavery and Shared Hope International In sentencing child sex trafficking survivor, Pieper Lewis, on September 13, 2022, Judge David Porter stated, “Ms. Lewis, this is the second chance you asked for. You don’t get a third. Do you…

‘It’s like cancer, it knows no boundaries’ | Reports of human trafficking on the rise in East Tennessee – WBIR.com
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‘It’s like cancer, it knows no boundaries’ | Reports of human trafficking on the rise in East Tennessee – WBIR.com

In 2021, the TBI Human Trafficking Unit conducted 13 undercover operations across the state, including several in East Tennessee. SEVIER COUNTY, Tenn. — According to the Community Coalition Against Human Trafficking (CCAHT), reports of human trafficking in East Tennessee are becoming more prevalent. “There’s so much victim-blaming to human trafficking, and these individuals, they need…