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"I don't want this to happen to someone else," Shandra said as she recalled her story. After losing her job as a financial analyst due to an economic downturn in her native Indonesia, 25-year-old Shandra Woworuntu was desperate. Expanding her job search internationally, she found a six-month seasonal employment opportunity in Chicago's hospitality industry.

The FBI, in partnership with more than thirty enforcement agencies in the Bay Area, recovered seven juveniles during an enforcement action focused on commercial human sex trafficking. Additionally, more than a dozen pimps and their associates were arrested, some of whom traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area from other states specifically for the purpose of commercial sex exploitation at the Super Bowl.

"The hotel industry is just one of many venues sex traffickers use to exploit their victims. Pimps commonly use hotel and motel rooms to set up “dates” between victims of sex trafficking and those individuals purchasing sex."

Four prominent Bay Area district attorneys came together Wednesday to once again thrust the issue of human trafficking into the limelight and to implore everyday citizens to keep their eyes open for the subtle signs of what they called “modern-day slavery.” With Super Bowl 50 as a backdrop and with the Bay Area coming under a national media

For years, I have heard and read the heartbreaking narratives of injustice that reverberate throughout the human trafficking landscape. Be it stories of children who endured unrelenting violence as child slaves in Cambodia, testimonials of women who were coerced into prostitution or reports of individuals who could not escape persistent psychological

"Sex sells" does little to explain the multimillion-dollar profits generated by the underground commercial sex economy. From high-end escort services to high school "sneaker pimps," the sex trade leaves no demographic unrepresented and circuits almost every major US city. What we know about the underground commercial sex economy is likely just the tip of

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Jan. 6, 2016)– Many people are uncomfortable talking about commercial sex and human trafficking, but they’re happening in our community, including Hamilton County and throughout the State of Indiana. That’s according to Attorney General Greg Zoeller’s office. “I mean you’re really talking about the

Click here for online article. Pimping is often glamourized in popular culture, yet there is nothing captivating about a young girl being held against her will and used for sex, turning her profits over to someone who manipulates her while possibly being transported to another state where she doesn't know a single person. Unfortunately, this happens