sex trafficking

U.S. District Court Judge Janis Jack said she was very disappointed in Texas' investigation into sex trafficking allegations at The Refuge and wants federal law enforcement involved.

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.

UNICEF warned about the higher risk for children fleeing the conflict. More than 500 unaccompanied children have crossed from Ukraine into Romania since the Russian invasion began.

Was there or wasn’t there sex trafficking at The Refuge, the Bastrop-based residential treatment center?

Damon Bristo was arrested on July 22 on the suspicion of the sex trafficking of a child in the second degree. The opera company announced Tuesday that Bristo has resigned.

A woman who says she was first sex-trafficked at the age of 4 has filed a lawsuit against three north Texas hotel chains. Her suit claims the businesses…

Sex trafficking is the business of forcing victims to provide sex for profit — a form of modern-day slavery that is vicious, pervasive and which has…

Laurie Cook Heffron, a licensed social worker and professor of Social Work at St. Edward’s University in Austin, is co-author of the study “Latina…

Sex traffickers are drawn to vulnerable kids. Young victims are often homeless or runaways, have previously been abused or neglected, or who have at some…

From Texas Standard : Human trafficking is more common than some may think, and experts say it can take place in an average neighborhood with people who...