Forty-five Burmese fishermen have been rescued from Indonesia, where they had been placed by human traffickers after traveling with fabricated documents.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has reported that the number of children exploited in sex abuse cases in the US has risen to “epidemic” levels recently.
Senators questioned the integrity of the human-trafficking report after the Obama administration dropped Malaysia and Cuba from the report’s blacklist.
Michigan Judge Joyce Draganchuk sentenced Mariah Haughton, 17, to four to 20 years in prison last week after she pleaded guilty to human trafficking and transporting a female for prostitution.
American Express, Visa, and MasterCard, will no longer allow their cards be used to purchase adult ads on Backpage.com, a website accused of facilitating sex trafficking of children.
“The least of these” may be hard to see at first, but they are there, in your own community, hoping someone will notice that they are trapped and suffering. Healing cannot come without first knowing that the pain exists.