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Shared Hope International Exposes never-before-seen look at Child Sex Trafficking Laws in America
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Three AGs to receive Shared Hope International Pathbreaker Award
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Protected Innocence Initiative Part 6: Shared Hope’s Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Tools For to Effectuate Investigation and Prosecutions
The sixth and final component of the Protect Innocence Initiative analyzes state law regarding law enforcement and criminal justice tools for investigation and prosecution. This final category includes recommendations for states to...
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Part 5: Protective Provisions for Child Victims: Correcting laws to protect, not prosecute, child victims
In the growing tragedy of American children being brutally exploited and sold in the U.S. sex trade, perhaps the greatest tragedy of all is how the justice system responds to child victims....
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Part 4: Hotels, Planes, and Taxis, Oh My! The efforts to stop facilitating child sex trafficking
The fourth component of the Protected Innocence Initiative is “Criminal Provisions for Facilitators.” Hotels are perhaps one of the most well recognized facilitators in the sex trafficking industry. At hotels young children...
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