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Koin 6 News

A bill fighting child sex trafficking was introduced to Oregon state lawmakers on Wednesday. House Bill 3040 would allow juries to get more information concerning sex traffickers adn their child victims when those sex traffickers are in court. 

KMTR Eugene

The Junior League of Eugene says there are more than 300,000 kids at risk of human trafficking in the United States alone. 

Statesman Journal

"I was recruited by a pimp out of the Lloyd Center," Sara Hunt said to a crowd of high school students and parents Tuesday evening at McNary High School's In Plain Sight Event, hosted by a student-run club called Aware. 

KSFY News

Though lawmakers are on a recess, they still have a lot of legislation left on the table, including a controversial sex trafficking bill: the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act. It's a bill that senators couldn't pass before they left Washington last month. 

The New York Times

On Tuesday, a measure that would create a victims' fund, using fines collected from perpetrators of sex trafficking, failed to clear a procedural hurdle, leaving a bill that once had majority support in Congress in limbo. 

OPB

Rachel Hestmark grew up in Portland. She says she was a gullible 19-year-old. Just out of high school, she met a couple of girls - one of them a friend of a friend. And on the spur of the moment she and the two girls decided to go to California for a few weeks and make some fast money ... 

Houston Chronicle

Partisan politics continued to bog down a widely supported human trafficking bill Thursday. 

Ballard News-Tribune

Washington state continued to be a pioneer in the fight to combat human trafficking today by passing legislation that creates a human trafficking information clearing house and activates the former Washington State Task Force on the Trafficking of Persons. 

The Dallas Morning News

A bipartisan bill to fight human trafficking sponsored by Texas Sen. John Cornyn hit a snag Tuesday. 

WDAY TV

A bill to create a fund for victim recovery due to human trafficking and other exploitation crimes will hit the floor of the U.S. Senate tomorrow. 

Koin 6 News

The organization responsible for hosting the Adolescent Sexuality Conference decided to cancel the 2015 event just a month before it was held in Seaside.