Children in Texas can still be charged with prostitution after Gov. Greg Abbott this month vetoed a popular bill prohibiting prostituted min...

Among children reported as likely victims of child sex trafficking upon running away from home, most have one thing in common—they were supp...

A supervisor at Blackstone Valley Youth and Family Collaborative group home contracted by the Rhode Island Department of Children Youth ...

A former supervisor at a Rhode Island group home that contracted with the state child welfare agency has been sentenced to 10 years in priso...

They're among metro Detroit's most vulnerable children: teenage girls who have been abused, neglected or suffer from mental health i...

An East Texas man was indicted Friday after he was accused of kidnapping a 14-year-old Keller girl, sexually assaulting her and sending reco...

The problems at Davenport Shelter began long before a 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped after running away from the state licensed hou...

A disturbing story of sex traffickers targeting teenage girls in Detroit as a family found out their loved one is one of the victims. Poli...

Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery.  It is not enough merely to denounce this horrific assault on human dignity; we must actively...

Many sex trafficking victims in Milwaukee have a history of being reported missing from group homes. Most have experienced significant tra...

A 27-year-old Lynn woman accused of using her position at a Saugus group home to recruit a child to perform sex acts for money in Boston...

A Lynn woman who worked at a group home for adolescents in Saugus was released on personal recognizance Friday after pleading not guilty to ...

Babubhai* ran a unique matrimonial service out of a small shop in a busy Ahmedabad locality. He bought girls from Gujarat’s tribal areas and...

A former Kentucky judge has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on human trafficking charges. Timothy Nolan, a 71-year-old former Campbel...

Children removed from unfit families and put in foster care are terrifyingly vulnerable to being trafficked, a fact that Amy Andrews knows a...

PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) - The Oregon Department of Human Services is ramping up efforts to help foster kids who are victims of sex trafficking. ...

She was 13, living in a Kansas group home, when an older girl convinced her to run away. That led to her being sold for sex for the first ...

Of the 56 victims rescued, 11 were juveniles, and all were female. Officials said the average age of a juvenile human trafficking victim in ...

housands of traumatized children in foster care in Britain go missing, with some returning to traffickers who feed them "a web of lies...

Earlier this year, the Tribune’s Sold Out series examined how state policies — including a severely underfunded child welfare system — faile...