Global Centurion recently announced the winners of the second annual Norma Hotaling Anti-Trafficking Awards. Among the honorees was AFNAP’s Kaffie McCullough, who received an award for Innovative Demand Reduction Award.
Working to Stop the Prostitution of Children in Georgia
Since 2007, the Juvenile Justice Fund’s A Future. Not A Past. campaign has been working to stop the prostitution of children in Georgia through groundbreaking research that drives strategies of prevention, intervention, and education. Every year, more than 28,000 men in Georgia knowingly or unknowingly have sex with prostituted adolescent girls. Unless we work together, that number will only continue to grow.
It is the mission of A Future. Not A Past. to protect and inspire hope in our girls, the true victims of this illicit practice…as well as to disable demand and prosecute to the fullest extent the pimps and johns who exploit them.
Internet Pimp Receives Seventeen Year Sentence
A Cobb County man was convicted of prostituting a sixteen year-old girl, pimping her on the internet. The penalty? Seventeen years in federal prison.
California Man Sentenced to 30 Years
Maurice Lerome Smith of San Diego County was recently sentenced to thirty years in a federal prison for the prostitution of a child.
Fighting Child Sex Trafficking in DeKalb County
“This crime spans all walks of communities.” So says a cybercrime detective after serving an arrest warrant in DeKalb county to a man accused of the sexual exploitation of children.
Village Voice Pimps
The editor of Village Voice Media, Tony Ortega, says that protestors against child sex trafficking “Don’t really understand what is going on.” Protestors taking action against Village Voice Media understand that the adult ads on Backpage.com enable child sex trafficking and must be ended.
A Young Survivor of Child Sex Slavery Speaks
Carolyn Jean Jones was coerced into child sex trafficking in Phoenix. Now she works to spread the message that child sex slavery will not be tolerated.
Two Arrested for the Sexual Trafficking of Children
Biloxi police recently charged 30-year-old Cindy Lee Hazlett of Biloxi and 37-year-old Christopher Robert Pendowski of Ocean Springs with the sexual trafficking of a child.
Georgia Teachers Lead the Fight Against Sexual Trafficking of Children
Every month, 400 Georgia children are sexually trafficked in Atlanta. The Georgia Department of Education is training its teachers how to look for signs of sex trafficking, putting them in the front lines in the war against this global epidemic.
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SAVE THE DATE!
3rd Annual 7200 Steps to Stop Demand 5k on
Oct. 13, 2012, Candler Park
