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An investigation into an alleged prostitution ring in Kentucky was traced to a veteran officer in a small-town police department, where the patrol supervisor was arrested on rape, sodomy, assault and other charges as he reported for his night shift, authorities said Wednesday. Oak Grove Police Sgt. Benjamin R. Walden, an overnight supervisor in the southwestern Kentucky town bordering Fort …

Prosecutors are calling the scourge of sex trafficking a form of modern-day slavery that touches every state in the nation, and they’re working to draw connections between active investigations around the globe at a summit in Hawaii. Representatives from eight countries more than a dozen U.S. states met to share details about cases of victims forced into the sex industry, …

Shandra Woworuntu arrived in the US hoping to start a new career in the hotel industry. Instead, she found she had been trafficked into a world of prostitution and sexual slavery, forced drug-taking and violence. It was months before she was able to turn the tables on her persecutors. Some readers may find her account of the ordeal upsetting. I …

Atlanta (CNN)The pathway leading to the dark corners of human trafficking began in the fluorescent-flooded hallways of a Florida middle school. Sacharay, which is how she wants to be known, was 14 years old and looking for a friend. “I used to get picked on a lot about being dark-skinned. I started wearing glasses and was called ‘four-eyes.’ And then …

How do you identify sex-trafficking victims when such cases go largely undetected or unreported?* It’s an issue with which law-enforcement agencies in the U.S. continually struggle. Detective Bill Woolf with the Northern Virginia Human Trafficking Task Force has experienced this first hand. Over the course of his tenure, he’s interviewed over 300 victims. In many cases, those who have been …