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7/23/10 - Ft. Lewis Army Sergeant Pleads Guilty To Sex Trafficking of Juveniles (DOJ)

7/14/10 - Three Charged with Human Trafficking on Florida Farms (Gainesville.com)

6/22/10 - 'Operation Fast Track' Cracks Down on Pimps, Johns (Seattle Times)

6/14/10 - Top Ten Take-Aways from the 2010 (U.S. State Dept.) Trafficking In Persons Report (Polaris Project)
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6/13/10 - Kohl-Welles Honored for Work Curbing Human Trafficking (Ballard News-Tribune)

6/9/10 - Child-Prostitution Crackdown (Seattle Times)

6/4/10 - WA Gets Serious About Role of 'Johns' in Juvenile Prostitution (Seattle Times)

5/18/10 - Pornland, Oregion: Child Prostitution in Portland by Dan Rather (Huffington Post)

5/1/10 - Six-Year Sentence for Human Trafficking (Everett)

4/30/10 - Rescuing Girls From Sex Slavery (Nepal)

3/31/10 - Renton Man Charged in Teen Prostitution Case (Renton)

3/16/10 - Take Heed, "Johns, Bill Gives Sex Trade Law Some Sharper Teeth (The News Tribune)

3/10/10 - Runaway Pimped For Jewelry, Rims for Cadillac (Kent)

3/1/10 - Apple Admits Child Labor & Sweatshops Used to Build iPhones (change.org)

2/12/10 - Activists Fight Human Trafficking (Washington's The Western Front)

2/11/10 - Seattle Donors Step Up To Save Program Aimed At Rescuing Teen Prostitutes (Seattle)

2/9/10 - Pimp Who "Bought" Young Woman for $2,000 And Advertised Her on Craigslist Is Sentenced To 25 Years (NY Daily News)

2/7/10 - From a Calcutta Brothel to a New York University (BBC News)

2/6/10 - Volunteers Try to Dissuade Young Sex Workers on Super Bowl Weekend (CNN)

1/22/10 - West Seattle Pimp Sentenced to 17 years

1/19/10 - Police Arrest 19 Johns and Sex Workers in Denny Park Sting (Seattle)

1/15/10 - Man Charged Rape and Kidnapping of Federal Way Teen (Federal Way)

1/12/10 - Child Prostitution Out of Shadows in Seattle

1/12/10 - Skagit Stopping Modern Day Slavery (Skagit County, WA)

1/7/10 - Being Prostituted at 13 is a Common Story (Oregonian)

1/4/10 - President Obama Declares January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month (USA)

12/30/09 - Trio Charged with Prostituting Teen Girls Online (Eugene, OR)

12/18/09 - NW's Anti-Trafficking Cycling Team, Thumbprint Racing, Voted the Best New Club of the Year by USA Cycling

12/17/09 - Seattle Against Slavery on Popular Human Trafficking Blog: The Human Trafficking Project

12/14/09 - Congress Increases DOJ Funding to Assist Human Trafficking Survivors by 25%

12/11/09 - West Seattle pimp sentenced to 9 years; brother could face decades in prison (Seattle)

12/11/09 - Patriots mascot arrested in RI sex sting

12/1/09 - Seattle council Passes 'Nuisance' Law (Seattle)

11/25/09 - Human Trafficking Conviction First Test of State Law (Seattle)

11/20/09 - Police: NC Girl Raped, Killed on Day She was Taken (NC)

11/10/09 - Actress Emma Thompson's art project takes viewers on 'Journey' of sex slaves (NYC)

11/9/09 - A Model Trade Union: Once Katie Ford and her family ran the world’s most famous modeling agency. Now she’s rallying to fight human trafficking (NYC)

10/27/09 - Children Rescued in Prostitution Sting (Seattle, Everett & 34 other cities)

10/20/09 - Pimp tells of 'selling' girls with dream (Seattle)

9/17/09 - Massive Amount of Child Porn Found at McNeil Island Facility (Steilaccom, WA)

8/28/09 - Aurora Motel Owners' Lawyer Criticizes Criminal Charges (Seattle)

08/27/09 - Gang member admits forcing teen girls into prostitution (Seattle)

08/18/09 - Five Sentenced for Forcing Guatemalan Girls and Women to Work as Prostitutes in Los Angeles (L.A.)

8/14/09 - Teen Arrested in Prostitution Sting at Hotel (Seattle)

7/21/09 - Gang Member Sentenced to Prison for Forcing Girls into Prostitution (Seattle)

6/17/09 - Sex Selling for Less Amid Economic Downtown (Berlin, Germany)

6/16/09 - China Tries 2 Men Accused of Being Gang Bosses (Yangjiang, China)

4/19/09 - Iraq Rediscovers Wild Side (Baghdad, Iraq)

4/17/09 - RI Cops: Case Similar to Boston Craigslist Slaying (Warwick, Rhode Island)

3/26/009 - 6 Charged in First King County Case using Human Trafficking Law (Seattle)

3/19/09 - Bainbridge Island Brothel Closes Shop, Police Say (Bainbridge Island)

3/18/09 - Police say Heidi Fleiss of Houston ran Sophisticated Prostituion Ring with Her Husband (Houston)

2/6/09 - Boss of Escort Biz Tied to ex-NY Gov Gets 2-1/2 Years (NYC)

1/5/09 - Sex Trafficking: The Evil Behind the Forced Smiles (Phnom Penh, Cambodia/NYTimes)

12/7/08 - Amsterdam Fine-Tunes Its "Crazy Place" Image (Amsterdam)

11/4/07 - Seattle to Vietnam: Traveling with a Purpose (Seattle/Vietnam)

Archive

11/16/06 - Prostitution Sting Leads to 104 Arrests (Seattle)

3/14/06 - International Justice Mission Receives $5 Million Grant from Gates Foundation to Fight Sex Trafficking

12/11/03 - Police Track Prostitution from Streets to Internet (Seattle)

9/18/03 - 7 Women Arrested at Hotel in Bellevue Prostitution Sting (Bellevue)

3/23/03 - Four Arrested During Prostitution Sting (Bellevue)

7/11/00 - Captive Daughters Receives $150,000 Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for Documentary of Nepalese Girls Trafficked into India Brothels

1/8/95 - Prostitutes Have Way Out - Survivor of the Streets Starts Service to Provide Counseling (Seattle)

12/3/94 - Heidi Fleiss Guilty in High-Priced Ring of Prostitution (Houston)

1/31/94 - Homicides in Seattle - 16 Yr Old Disappears After Walking Away From Shelter, Found Dead in Empty Lot (Seattle)

7/27/90 - 'Working Girls' Kept on the Run During Games (Seattle)