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...