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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...

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....

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...

There are more slaves today than were seized from Africa in four centuries of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.  The United States has been working to combat modern day slavery, human trafficking, by...

Demand fuels the commercial sex industry. Without buyers seeking paid sex with children, traffickers would not have a market to sell young children for sexual exploitation. To achieve significant deterrence, severe penalties...