14-Year-Old Trafficking Victim Took Down California Trafficking Ring with One Text Blog

14-Year-Old Trafficking Victim Took Down California Trafficking Ring with One Text

A trafficked 14-year-old from Michigan was able to save herself and two other exploited women because of a text she sent to a trafficking crisis hotline.

Fight the New DrugJuly 6, 2020

Belgium Detectives Shut Down Massive Child Porn Ring with Over 9 Million Images Blog

Belgium Detectives Shut Down Massive Child Porn Ring with Over 9 Million Images

The five-man pedophilic ring made and distributed child porn for a total of 13 years, all from thousands of victims—including members of their own family.

Fight the New DrugJuly 6, 2020

More than 80 Men were Sex Trafficked and Secretly Filmed for This Guy’s Porn Site Blog

More than 80 Men were Sex Trafficked and Secretly Filmed for This Guy’s Porn Site

Bryan Deneumostier posted ads on Craigslist, posing as a bored woman looking for sex. The men who responded had no idea the sexual encounters were filmed.

Fight the New DrugJuly 6, 2020

Landlords are Soliciting Sex for Rent from Tenants Affected by COVID-19 Shutdowns Blog

Landlords are Soliciting Sex for Rent from Tenants Affected by COVID-19 Shutdowns

Sex-for-rent schemes aren't new, but they're on the rise now that millions of workers lost income over the last two months due to the novel coronavirus.

Fight the New DrugJuly 3, 2020

Ohio Man Pretending to be a Porn Producer Sentenced to Prison for Sex Trafficking Teens Blog

Ohio Man Pretending to be a Porn Producer Sentenced to Prison for Sex Trafficking Teens

The 33-year-old persuaded teens to engage in sex acts with him on camera by falsely claiming the encounters were being shot for a porn video he was creating.

Fight the New DrugJuly 3, 2020

Meet the Colorado Teen Who’s Fighting Sex Trafficking in Her Own Hometown Blog

Meet the Colorado Teen Who’s Fighting Sex Trafficking in Her Own Hometown

Kyra is helping out with two local organizations in her home of Aurora that house and support sex trafficking survivors to get them back on their feet.

Fight the New DrugJuly 3, 2020

Lyft Drivers and Delta Airlines Personnel are Now Trained to Spot Human Trafficking Blog

Lyft Drivers and Delta Airlines Personnel are Now Trained to Spot Human Trafficking

How does the epidemic of human trafficking hide in plain sight? It can be easy to move and transport victims when traffickers don't think anyone is looking.…

Fight the New DrugJuly 3, 2020

Force, Fraud, and Coercion: Uncovering When Sex Trafficking and Porn Production Overlap Blog

Force, Fraud, and Coercion: Uncovering When Sex Trafficking and Porn Production Overlap

When sex trafficking and porn are placed side by side, the common thought is that they are miles apart. However, all it takes is a look at…

Fight the New DrugJuly 2, 2020

Why TikTok Has Become a Magnet For Child Predators Blog

Why TikTok Has Become a Magnet For Child Predators

With a lack of moderation, live streaming apps like TikTok are a perfect breeding ground for sexual grooming by abusers—and many parents have no clue.

Fight the New DrugJuly 2, 2020

I Was Fine with Porn and the Commercial Sex Industry, Until I Worked in a Brothel Blog

I Was Fine with Porn and the Commercial Sex Industry, Until I Worked in a Brothel

"I worked at the front desk of a brothel, and the sex buyers wanted exactly what was in porn. They would complain to me if they did…

Fight the New DrugJuly 1, 2020

Uncovering the Dark World of Trafficking in the Webcamming Industry Blog

Uncovering the Dark World of Trafficking in the Webcamming Industry

Much like “traditional” online porn as we think of it today, there are willing and unwilling participants in the camming side of the sex industry.

Fight the New DrugJuly 1, 2020

Florida Man Created a Fake Anti-Trafficking Nonprofit to Lure Teens into Trafficking, FBI Says Blog

Florida Man Created a Fake Anti-Trafficking Nonprofit to Lure Teens into Trafficking, FBI Says

Foster would falsely offer help to women who had been victims of sex trafficking via a nonprofit called “Foster’s Care," according to the FBI.

Fight the New DrugJune 30, 2020

How COVID-19 Has Worsened the Existing Issue of Human Trafficking Blog

How COVID-19 Has Worsened the Existing Issue of Human Trafficking

Victims find themselves in danger of further abuse or neglect by their captors due to a reduction in legal and government support and protection.

Fight the New DrugJune 30, 2020

These Teen Boys are Actual Heroes After Stopping a Man from Assaulting a Young Girl Blog

These Teen Boys are Actual Heroes After Stopping a Man from Assaulting a Young Girl

These 4 friends stopped a sexual assault, and then chased down and detained the attacker until police arrived. They're being hailed as heros, for good reason.

Fight the New DrugJune 30, 2020

“Sextortion” Scams Dramatically Increase Since COVID-19 Quarantines Began Blog

“Sextortion” Scams Dramatically Increase Since COVID-19 Quarantines Began

In one month during the shutdown peak, there were nearly 50,000 reports of people getting fraudulent sextortion email scams.

Fight the New DrugJune 19, 2020