Kids are heading back to school and jumping into another year of learning. Let’s make sure that they are learning about how to stay safe within the school system as well. This second post of a two part blog presents ideas for how you can prepare yourself, students, and their schools to fight sex trafficking. […]
Keeping Watch Over Schools
Kids are heading back to school and jumping into another year of learning. Let’s make sure that they are learning about how to stay safe within the school system as well. This first of a two part blog discusses the connection between sexual abuse and sex trafficking. It is difficult to imagine someone with whom […]
ESPN Supports Domestic Child Sex Trafficking? Village Voice Media Makes Sports Channel a Culprit
Do you watch ESPN? Great channel, right? Did you also know that ESPN is inadvertently supporting the sex trade of American children? ESPN Inc. advertises through Village Voice Media – who in turn advertises American children on their classified escorts site Backpage.com. Shared Hope International has documented over 200 children who have been sold for […]
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 are taken by their traffickers and sold to dozens of men a night. Airlines and taxis also act as facilitators in the sex […]
Part 1: Victims or perpetrators: Who goes free in the “Land of the Free”
The words “human trafficking” often conjure images of dark, grungy alleys in countries such as India and Thailand. Though awareness is growing, the 100,000-300,000children that officials estimate are forced into prostitution each year are often not regarded as trafficking victims, though legally defined as such by the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), because the […]
