The House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that gives prosecutors, state attorneys general and sex trafficking victims a clearer route to pursue legal action against websites hosting advertisements for prostitutes, which advocates have long argued are a hive for trafficking children.
Read MoreThere's a young woman sitting in a Tennessee prison waiting to see if Governor Haslam will end her life sentence. It's a long shot for Cyntoia Brown -- because she killed a man. Still, there's no silencing the judges, a former state supreme court justice and attorneys who are all putting their careers on the line to see her free.
Read MoreA number of tabloid stars (Rihanna, LeBron James, Snoop Dogg, Cara Delevingne and Kim Kardashian West) began using social media to bring attention to a young woman’s plight who is incarcerated at the Tennessee Prison for Women.
Read MoreTRUMANN, Ark. — An Arkansas judge has found probable cause to hold a Tennessee man on $1 million bail pending formal charges in what authorities say may have been a sex-trafficking ring.
Read MoreOne late December morning before school, a 14-year-old girl was on the website http://www.teenchat.com. According to a Metro Police search warrant, someone told the teen through the website that he had her personal information including her name, email and address. He told the girl that he would post the information online if she didn’t send a nude video of herself.
Read MoreOn the day she met Marcus Thompson, the girl later told the FBI, she had been ready to leap from a bridge to end her life. She was only 15, pregnant and alone on the streets.
Read MoreLiving within a dysfunctional home of mental, emotional and sexual abuse resulted in Anne (not her real name) running away when she was 13. For the next couple of years, she was trafficked before she headed to Nashville to live with her father.
Read MoreJanuary is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. In Tennessee, 85 counties have reported at least one case of human trafficking.
Read More"It will break the internet." "It is a violation of free speech." "It will stifle the growth of future online companies." These are just a few of the misconceptions being tossed around as justification for opposing proposed legislation that would eliminate immunity granted to internet service providers profiting from children and adult victims of human trafficking, who are being sold for sex through their websites.
Read MoreNeed help? Contact the Tennessee Human Trafficking Hotline.
