TAG / SEX TRAFFICKING

Police arrest 246 sex crime suspects in a week-long sting, including repeat offenders seeking to exploit minors as young as 12.

The federal lawsuit targets Backpage and hotels that ignored warning signs—even as Tony Ortega defended the site, masking the serial sexual exploitation of girls like Isabelle Hughes.

Survivors describe years of rape, beatings, threats and quota systems as trafficking jumps 1,900 percent in Montana.

Authorities vow long prison terms as California, already the nation’s trafficking epicenter, reels from crimes targeting foster children and runaways.

Foster children run away by the hundreds, but authorities in the state fail to search or screen for trafficking—turning a blind eye to exploitation and abuse.

A new lawsuit claims staff ignored obvious signs of child sex trafficking to keep rooms filled and cash flowing.

States are cracking down on the hospitality industry’s role in human trafficking. New mandates mean fewer blind eyes and faster interventions.

Simultaneous raids in 19 states dismantle a massive network exploiting Chinese women in illegal “massage parlors,” with 46 arrests and more than 70 victims liberated.

Undercover operatives work tirelessly to break up forced labor and sex trafficking networks, confronting “things that cannot be unseen.”