People still till this very day don’t believe that slavery is still happening here in America. It took Jenny Almquist to figure this out when she went to a presentation about Human Sex trafficking back in 2008.
When you think about sex trafficking in the United States the first thing that pops into your mind, is that’s a law enforcement problem. Nope, now you have Truckers Against Trafficking(TAT) that helps the law enforcement and government agencies to facilitate the investigation of human trafficking.
Shared Hope International strives to prevent the conditions that foster sex trafficking, restore victims of sex slavery, and bring justice to vulnerable women and children. We envision a world passionately opposed to sex trafficking and a community committed to restoring survivors to lives of purpose, value and choice – one life at a time.
In the United States, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), as amended by the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 (JVTA), defines sex trafficking as “recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting of an individual through the means of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of commercial sex”.