Tag Archives: #sextrafficking

9 Nov

#sextrafficking | Sex trafficking survivors help police, prosecutors better understand child victims – Honolulu, Hawaii news, sports & weather | #tinder | #pof | #match

“If you don’t say the right words, it’s very difficult to talk to police because you were told bad things about them. So that’s one, and then understanding trafficking like on the ground, and understanding the youth in the sites...
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4 Nov

#sextrafficking | Authorities seek ways to protect children in the islands from sexual exploitation | #tinder | #pof | #match

HTA and HLTA are sponsoring these workshops, so they are free to attend. Organizers say the symposiums are aimed at empowering Hawai’i’s visitor industry management, but everyone who wants to help raise awareness and take a stand against trafficking is...
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26 Oct

#sextrafficking | Kansas foster care problems left kids vulnerable to sex traffickers | #tinder | #pof | #match

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — More than a dozen children who ran away from troubled Kansas welfare system and juvenile corrections placements have wound up incarcerated for crimes related to human trafficking, drawing the ire of victims’ advocates and some...
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24 Oct

#sextrafficking | Cyntoia Brown: trafficked, enslaved, jailed for life at 16 – and fighting back | Global development | #tinder | #pof | #match

Cyntoia Brown-Long was just 16 when she was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a man she claims bought her for sex. The homeless runaway had been in and out of the juvenile justice system, survived multiple rapes...
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22 Oct

#sextrafficking | Victims of Sex Trafficking Often Punished While Pimps, ‘Johns’ Walk Free | #tinder | #pof | #match

Freedom should belong to the victim, not the abuser. But, unfortunately across the globe — and right here in America — that fact isn’t always the reality. Prostitution is jokingly labeled the oldest profession. But, working in the sex industry...
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