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Toledo diocesan priest on leave after arrest on sex trafficking charges

cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 13:20:28 -0400

TOLEDO, Ohio -- A priest of the Diocese of Toledo is on administrative leave as he faces federal sex trafficking charges.

‘Shoppable Girls’ spreading the word

mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:09:55 -0500

What��Ƶapp a teenage girl worth? ��Ƶapp $280,000 per year in income for sex traffickers, according to Covenant House research.

Vatican releases pastoral guide to help church fight human trafficking

cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 11:26:04 -0500

VATICAN – The Vatican has created a set of pastoral guidelines to inspire and improve the church's work in addressing the crime of human trafficking and the care of its victims worldwide.

Donald Trump signs law to feed funds into anti-human trafficking mission

cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 15:22:29 -0500

WASHINGTON – Nationwide efforts to confront human trafficking received a boost in the new year as President Donald Trump signed a bill reauthorizing federal expenditures for prevention and assistance programs across the federal government.

Parents key in sex trafficking battle over young teen girls

mikes@catholicregister.org (Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:50:40 -0500

Young teenage girls on their phones regularly put themselves at risk for sexual exploitation and sex trafficking, but those risks decrease for teens whose parents talk to them about avoiding strangers online, a new Ipsos study for Covenant House has found.

Synod final document must include scandal of human trafficking affecting young people, cardinal says

cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:44:32 -0400

VATICAN – The scandal of human trafficking, which affects millions of young people in the world, needs to be included in the Synod of Bishops' final document, one synod father said.

Human trafficking called 'one of darkest, most revolting realities' today

cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 11:30:21 -0400

UNITED NATIONS – Mely Lenario quietly described her harrowing journey from ambitious, naive rural girl trafficked to hopeless, drug-fueled urban prostitute, through slow rehabilitation to a new life as an outreach worker.

This U.S. nuns' home is helping girls freed from sex trafficking

Sat, 27 May 2017 11:00:00 -0400

BATON ROUGE, La. – The numbers are staggering. Each year in the U.S. alone, some 300,000 minors are victims of sex trafficking.