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California's Forgotten Children is an American feature documentary directed by Melody C. Miller. [1] Winning Best Documentary at the 2018 Soho International Film Festival, [2] the film follows a diverse group of resilient survivors who have overcome commercial sexual exploitation of children and are changing the world by ensuring no child is left behind. [3]
Human trafficking panic gets a holiday twist in the latest faux trafficking scare to hit social media. In a December 16 Instagram post that received more than 190,000 likes, user Ernest Carter ...
A Taste of Blackberries was rejected by several publishers who thought the main theme was too dark for children. Mortality had been a common subject in Victorian literature for young readers (see for example Oliver Twist), but books for young readers about death had become taboo until, in 1952, the appearance of E. B. White's classic Charlotte’s Web.
CATLETTSBURG An Ashland man pleaded guilty to the attempted human trafficking of a child in exchange for a seven-year sentence on Friday in Boyd County Circuit Court. Anthony C. Smith, 30, was ...
Under this act, a child is defined as anyone under the age of 18, however the exploitation of children under the age of 14 carries a harsher punishment, though this is rarely enforced. The Bureau of Justice Statistics states that there are 100,000 child victims of sex trafficking, but only 150 child trafficking cases were brought to court in 2011.
Fourteen people were arrested and 10 victims of sex trafficking were rescued — including a 16-year-old girl — in a sting operation at the Comic-Con International convention in San Diego ...
Child slavery and human trafficking are global public health concerns with profound risks to life-course trauma and health. Globally, over 50% of child trafficking victims are recruited by family and friends, and children account for 27% of all human trafficking victims happening worldwide, with two out of every three child victims being girls.
In the case of child-on-child sexual abuse, young children who have not matured sexually are incapable of knowing about specific sex acts without an external source. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Consequently, children who initiate or solicit overtly sexual acts with other children either have been sexually victimized beforehand (by an adult or another ...