Forbes
When we think of human trafficking, we often think about the despondent faces of women and children who live in slums all over the world. What if human trafficking is much closer to home than we think? Read MoreWorld Without Exploitation
An open letter from Survivors of Prostitution and Trafficking Read MoreFox News
This week continues a series of reports where we interview the survivors of human trafficking as they painfully recount their harrowing experiences. Read MoreFox12
A missing California teenager has been reunited with her family after police say a man and woman transported her to Oregon, provided her with marijuana and engaged her in prostitution.
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Sex trafficking — especially when it comes to the buying and selling of young girls — has become big business in America, the fastest growing business in organized crime and the second most-lucrative commodity traded illegally after drugs and guns.
Read MoreHuman trafficking is one of the “most dramatic manifestations” of the “commodification of the human person,” Pope Francis told participants at an International Conference on Human Trafficking held in Rome from 9 to 11 April. It not only “disfigures the humanity of the victim” but also “dehumanizes those who perform it,” the Holy Father said, and as such “seriously damages humanity as a whole.”
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A Seattle-area man is facing federal charges in connection with the human trafficking of a girl brought to Oregon to work in strip clubs.
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Sex trafficking in the suburbs of Portland, police say it's a reality they deal with every day. A lot of their cases are no longer confined to the city, but are spreading into neighborhoods like Beaverton.
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Fighting accusations from members of Congress that it facilitated child sex trafficking, the classified advertising site Backpage.com abruptly closed its adult advertising section in the United States on Monday, saying years of government pressure left it no choice but to shutter its most popular and lucrative feature.
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A man accused of operating an escort service out of Los Angeles has been found guilty in federal court. A jury on Wednesday found Taquarius Ford guilty of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, two counts of sex trafficking through force, fraud or coercion, and obstruction of justice, The Oregonian reported.
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Taquarius Ford, dressed in gray slacks and a sweater, took the witness stand in federal court and for two days described how he and his girl ran an escort service out of Los Angeles.
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