Study: Child Sex Trafficking Victims Not Who You Think They Are
A new study of child sex trafficking in Texas finds that victims are not adequately identified, enter and exit victimization multiple times, and are exploited most of their lives.
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A new study of child sex trafficking in Texas finds that victims are not adequately identified, enter and exit victimization multiple times, and are exploited most of their lives.
North Texan Rebekah Charleston says she was a sex slave for years. She's now back spending many nights back in night clubs trying to help women escape the life she once lived.
Irving Police took to Twitter on Thursday to raise awareness about human trafficking.
Delaware's attorney general has moved to dissolve the limited liability companies behind Backpage.com, a classified ad website whose listings included sexual services.
The need for long-term and specialized care to treat child sex-trafficking victims is increasing as the focus across the U.S. shifts from punishment to treatment.
A massage therapist who in 2012 flew to London before the Summer Olympics faces up to life in prison for sexually exploiting boys.
Locked up, drugged, beaten and forced to perform sex acts for money. Two people are facing charges for keeping sex-trafficking victims in a west Dallas home.
A January 2020 trial has been set for the founders and five employees of the classified advertising site Backpage.com.
A court hearing is scheduled for two founders of the classified advertising site Backpage.com in a case in which they are accused of knowingly running ads for sexual services.
A co-founder of the classified advertising site Backpage.com who has been jailed for the last 10 days on charges of facilitating prostitution was released on a $1 million bond Monday.
A hearing is scheduled Monday to determine whether a founder of the advertising site Backpage.com should be released from jail while he awaits trial.
The owners of the classified advertising site Backpage.com are now facing a federal indictment charging them with ignoring warnings to stop running advertisements promoting prostitution.
Following a four-day trial before, a federal jury last week convicted three men for their roles in a conspiracy to sex traffic underage girls.
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Two men are in federal custody Thursday on sex trafficking charges involving a 13-year old girl.
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Federal authorities have arrested eight men in North Texas on charges they sold women, including at least three juveniles, to have sex with men who had responded to online advertising.
Local law enforcement arrested 28 people and they said there will likely be more to come.
"It's been 106 days since she's been gone," said Felita Verdell.
A judge sentenced a 46-year-old North Texas man to prison after he admitted pimping a 16-Year-Old girl in Wichita Falls and Dallas.
A California judge tentatively rejected pimping charges Wednesday against the operators of a major international website that advertises escort services and was called the "world's top online brothel" by the state attorney general.
A judge has tentatively rejected pimping charges against the operators of a major international website that advertises escort services.
Authorities in Carrollton are investigating a fatal shooting involving a police officer. The deceased suspect was thought to be operating a sex trafficking business out of a hotel room.
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Authorities are urging anyone with information to come forward.
The suspect drove through the doors of a JCPenny in Killeen, Texas, and continued inside for "several hundred yards," an official said.
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The suspect drove through the doors of a JCPenny in Killeen, Texas, and continued inside for "several hundred yards," an official said.
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"The events are not a mismanagement of business, but an intentional act to deceive and deprive," an investigator said.
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