One of the most successful national operations targeting child sex trafficking was conducted by the FBI and local, state and federal law enforcement agencies as part of the week-long Operation Cross Country initiative to combat child sex trafficking. Under this initiative, 281 traffickers were arrested and 168 children were recovered. The most recent sting operation […]
Buyer Beware: Legislators Tighten Laws to Target Buyers
Rep. Judge Ted Poe and Senator John Cornyn cross-filed the End Sex Trafficking Act of 2013 on July 24, 2013. The bill has the purpose of clarifying the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and its criminal provision, 18 USC 1591, to include actions by buyers – through the verbs “patronizes or solicits” – as […]
School’s In Session (Part 2 of 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 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 […]
It Happens to Boys, Too
Special guest blog post by Anna Smith, Executive Director & Co-Founder of Restore One. Commercial sexual exploitation “happens to boys, too.” “You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”– William Wilberforce The words of William Wilberforce serve as a stark reminder that with knowledge not […]
