Doj: St. Louis Among Top 20 Cities For Sex Trafficking

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV.com) -
The Department of Justice has named St. Louis among the top 20 cities in the country for sex trafficking.

The Covering House is a non-profit in the St. Louis area and gives restoration to trafficked girls between 13 and 17-years-old.

The founder Dedee Lhamon said they’ve taken in girls as young as 7-years-old.

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Sex Trafficking Victims May Push Rescue Away, U.S. Experts Say

by Ellen Wulfhorst | @EJWulfhorst | Thomson Reuters Foundation

Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:28 GMT

 

BILLINGS, Montana, June 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rick and Pat Freeland have cared for hundreds of troubled girls and women at their log cabin refuge deep in the Rocky Mountains, but there's one rule; they will only take two victims of sex trafficking at a time.

Survivors of sex trafficking can be among the most difficult crime victims to assist, often resisting help, refusing to see themselves as victims and returning to their traffickers, experts say.

Added to that, they can be smart, manipulative and deceptive, using the same behaviours they learned to survive on anyone who tries to help them.

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Members Of Congress Urge DOJ To Fully Implement Human Trafficking Law

Posted: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 1:49 pm | Updated: 2:35 pm, Wed May 25, 2016.

By Community Reports

 

Congressman Ted Poe (R-TX-02) , along with Representatives Carolyn Maloney (D-NY-12), Ann Wagner (R-MO-02), and Joyce Beatty (D-OH-03), held a joint press conference May 25 to call on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to fully implement the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act (JVTA) of 2015. Nearly a year after JVTA became law, the Members expressed concern that the DOJ has yet to implement the entirety of the law. Lack of implementation would thwart Congressional efforts to combat modern day slavery.

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A Florida Man Indicted for Operating Sex Trafficking Enterprise

By: Department of Justice

May 11, 2016

WASHINGTON – Jeffrey Jason Cooper, 46, of Miami Beach, Florida, was charged late yesterday in an 11-count indictment in the Southern District of Florida with sex trafficking and attempted sex trafficking by fraud, wire fraud, importation of aliens for prostitution or immoral purposes and use of a facility of interstate commerce to operate a prostitution enterprise.

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