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Backpage boasts 400 child sex ads reported monthly: More trafficked minors found
In a May 2012 investigation by ABC Nightline, the lawyer for Village Voice Media's subsidiary, Backpage.com, insisted that the publication giant is helping stop the sex trafficking of minors. This week, Backpage asked that the demand...
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Child sex trafficking in the US: 40-year comparison of pimps and victims
There have been many forms of commercial child sexual exploitation in the US, but it is only in the last dozen years that it became an official federal crime. Under the TVPA (Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000...
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A sex trafficking survivor walks in victory, helping other victims
"I needed to stop isolating myself and begin to help others. I want to help runaways." Barbara AmayaBarbara Amaya knows what it is like to have been abused to the point of having no self-esteem...
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Alexis LaBenz: Champion in the fight against child sex trafficking
by Holly Craw
Starting with a little information, ignited passion for a cause and a website, Alexis LaBenz is a national voice against sex trafficking.
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Child sex trafficking charges levied against Brooklyn couple
by Holly Craw
The quick action of a 13 year-old girl resulted in arrest and sex trafficking charges against her pimps.
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Being a voice for the voiceless: A teen speaks out for sex trafficked teens.
by Holly Craw
Alexis LaBenz is still a teenager herself, but she has been commanding the attention of national policy makers in her presentations about child sex trafficking.
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Year in Review: Sex trafficking perpetrators and heroes
by Holly Craw
The good, the bad and the broken. Key people in the child sex trafficking arena.
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