sex trafficking

The lead pastor of a Wisconsin evangelical church has been arrested for soliciting minors.

We need to have our arsenal of weaponry ready, and that includes excavating the hidden places in our own lives. Once we have the freedom to address what needs to be exposed, then we can equip the next generation to find their freedom. We need to fight for the children so they can rise up and fulfill the purpose that was deposited into them, to take their position in this world and to change it. But we must first do our part to fight for them right now.

Eighteen men were recently arrested for human trafficking. A Baptist youth pastor is reportedly among the arrested men.

A coalition of at least 700 survivors of sexual exploitation and advocates for victims of sexual harassment has sent a letter to Congress urging the body to launch a criminal investigation into Pornhub and its parent company MindGeek.

According to the Tallahassee Police Department, more than 170 people were arrested for their involvement in a Florida sex-trafficking network.

The Justice Department has been awarded $100 million in federal grants to fight human trafficking.

According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, child sex trafficking includes the “recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining or advertising of a minor child for the purpose of a commercial sex act.” Of the roughly 24-thousand endangered runaways reported last year, estimates are that one in six were victims of sex trafficking. Often, traffickers are family members or family friends, such as parents who’ve lost custody or guardians looking to profit.

Twenty-five more trafficked children have been recovered by authorities on Tuesday.

The FBI and local Georgia authorities recently recovered nearly 40 missing children, many of whom are likely victims of child sex-trafficking.