by Justice | May 11, 2019 | human trafficking solutions
Investigators say Peay had met the victim — a 14-year-old girl — using social media. Peay had paid the girl money and subsequently had sex with her in late April at a Silver Spring hotel. Read More
by Justice | May 11, 2019 | Featured, human trafficking statistics
As investigative journalist Amy Fine Collins notes, “It’s become more lucrative and much safer to sell malleable teens than drugs or guns. A pound of heroin or an AK-47 can be retailed once, but a young girl can be sold 10 to 15 times a day — and a ‘righteous’ pimp...
by Justice | Sep 6, 2018 | Featured, human trafficking prevention, human trafficking statistics
While some young people, like those who are homeless or transgender, are especially vulnerable, the truth is that victims do traverse across every type of neighborhood. They could be top of the class, the girl who lives across the street from you, or the head of the...
by Justice | May 12, 2018 | human trafficking prevention, human trafficking statistics
At least four men raped a 15-year-old runaway and kept her at a West Side apartment complex by keeping her high on drugs, according to court records. One of the suspects, 28-year-old Ray Hernandez Jr., was arrested Thursday on a charge of continuous trafficking of...
by Justice | Apr 7, 2018 | human trafficking prevention, human trafficking solutions
We are happy to announce… U.S. law enforcement agencies have seized the sex marketplace website Backpage.com as part of an enforcement action by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to a posting on its website on Friday. Read...
by Justice | Nov 7, 2017 | human trafficking prevention, human trafficking solutions
Corinna Slusser, a 19-year-old college student, was last seen at the Haven Motel on Woodhaven Boulevard in Rego Park on Sept. 20 — and cops now fear she’s trapped in a prostitution ring. Read...
by Justice | Sep 21, 2017 | championing hope, human trafficking prevention
Senators on Tuesday vowed to press ahead with an anti-sex trafficking bill opposed by the biggest names in the tech industry, in the latest sign that Silicon Valley has lost some of its luster in Washington. At issue is a measure introduced by Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and...
by Justice | Sep 20, 2017 | human trafficking solutions
A Texas man promised two underage girls lives filled with luxury and riches–but actually groomed them for prostitution and confiscated their earnings–got 30 years in federal prison. Read...
by Justice | May 10, 2017 | championing hope
The man who created what is believed to be the world’s largest website dealing in images of child sexual abuse has been sentenced to 30 years in jail. Read More From...
by Justice | Mar 12, 2017 | human trafficking statistics
Lawyers in Pennsylvania say their client was sexually exploited at a motel for years, alleging the teen girl was a victim of human trafficking who was forced to have sex with more than 1,000 men. “This child was forced into sex slavery, paid to do things with men...