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Staying safe during Halloween
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Staying safe during Halloween

With Halloween around the corner while it is a fun family holiday, we must be conscious of the dangers that can come with it.  Here’s some easy tips and reminders to keep in mind during the holiday from Phoenix, AZ Starbright Foundation. CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO    

Staying Safe from Traffickers
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Staying Safe from Traffickers

According to Golden Gate Express Organization San Francisco has become a hub for human trafficking in California.  Social Media is at an all time high for traffickers to lure in their victims.  “California Against Slavery reported that the top three of 10 worst child sex trafficking areas in the United States are in California: San Francisco,...

Neighborhood sex trafficking ring busted in Fort Worth, Texas
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Neighborhood sex trafficking ring busted in Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas, 39 year old Tremont Blakemore has been arrested for sex trafficking.  There are eighty-six pages of arrest affidavits that include text messages. anonymous tips, social media accounts and bank records that detail what was going on in the Fort Worth neighborhood home as well as several others in Texas.  15 women were...

Over 100 children found in Michigan sex trafficking operation
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Over 100 children found in Michigan sex trafficking operation

On September 26th 2018 operation MISafeKid throughout Wayne County on a one-day sweep 123 kids were found.  The goal of the operation was to recover missing children and locate sex trafficking victims. All of the rescued children were interviewed on grounds of if there was any sexual victimization or possible sex trafficking, where at this...

UK Government investing 26 million to battle modern slavery in Asia
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UK Government investing 26 million to battle modern slavery in Asia

The UK Government has declared that they are to “invest £26m into a string of initiatives aimed at combatting modern slavery and child labour across six Asian countries.”  On Wednesday October 3rd, 2018 the first course of action is to  “champion human rights in Pakistan.” “From the clothes we wear to the food we eat, the...

New California law is targeting human trafficking
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New California law is targeting human trafficking

California now requires by two new laws that for employees of certain industries they must go through a training to identify human trafficking. Governor of California signed six bills targeting human trafficking, where two of those require human trafficking awareness training. California had the highest rate of human trafficking cases reported in the country over...

Vigilant nurse foils newborn abduction in hospital
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Vigilant nurse foils newborn abduction in hospital

A maternity ward sister in Durban, South Africa is receiving praise.  On Saturday she was approached by two unknown men wearing home affairs departmental name tags which allowed them to gain access, stating they were helping collect the mothers and newborns in order to help them register the birth certificate.  This did not sit well...

Brave survivor helping other victims of sex trafficking
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Brave survivor helping other victims of sex trafficking

Susan Munsey was trafficked at only 16 years of age by man she thought was her boyfriend.  They met when she was 15 and by deception and force by 16 he had started trafficking her. “I really hadn’t talked to anybody about this for probably 30 years, other than my therapist,” Munsey, now 61, said. “I...

8 arrests made in connection to suspected human trafficking in Arizona
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8 arrests made in connection to suspected human trafficking in Arizona

8 arrests were made in suspected human trafficking in Bullhead City and Lake Havasu City.  The arrests were linked to massage parlors.  Among the arrests authorities rescued two victims of human trafficking while serving 10 search warrants at the parlors and homes. “The investigation found that seven massage parlors in the two cities offered sexual...

Former Chief Justice son charged with sex trafficking a 14 year old girl
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Former Chief Justice son charged with sex trafficking a 14 year old girl

The son of former Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Pascal Calogero Jr. has been arrested on suspicion of paying for sex with a 14-year-old girl and arranging prostitution dates for the girl with other men. Pascal Calogero III was charged with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor on Wednesday. Prosecutors say he paid...