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The Refuge's license was suspended last year when it was discovered an employee had offered to sell nude photos of two girls in exchange for drug money. The nonprofit sex-trafficking treatment center reached a settlement with the state that allowed it to reopen.
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Texas' troubled foster system was roiled by allegations at a facility intended to help victims of trafficking. Since the news emerged, criminal investigators said the allegations documented by the state's foster system have been inaccurate. Now the state's foster care investigative director is leaving his position.
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A Kansas woman who was sex trafficked as a minor and later convicted of felony sex crimes should not receive a pardon from Gov. Laura Kelly, a panel says.
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Kansas Foster Care Instability Led To Surge In Runaways, Left Children Vulnerable To Sex TraffickersAt first, they wanted to save her. Then, after she fled the Kansas foster care system at age 16 and fell victim to the commercial sex trade, social...
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Hope Joy Zeferjohn was missing from the Kansas Capitol on the day her family was posing for pictures with the governor. It was May 22, 2015, and then...
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Sex traffickers are drawn to vulnerable kids. Young victims are often homeless or runaways, have previously been abused or neglected, or who have at...
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The program Truckers Against Trafficking is training truckers in Nebraska to spot signs of human trafficking.
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High Plains Morning was honored to speak with Denise Cross (Treasurer/Financial Advisor & Volunteer) and Stefanie Rodarte-Suto (Volunteer & Presenter) at…
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A new awareness campaign in Kansas is aimed at cutting the demand for prostitution as a way to fight human trafficking. The campaign involves state...
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Many West Texans likely believe that sex trafficking is a big-city problem. Nothing is further from reality. That truth has prompted several Lubbock...