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AlabamaAwarenessNews

Council approves resolution declaring Birmingham nation’s largest Trafficking Free Zone

According to the U.S Institute Against Human Trafficking, “The (TFZ) Trafficking Free Zone program is a community-based initiative to reduce the number of buyers, whose continuous financial investments create an illicit market for traffickers to exploit young victims in Alabama.

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Cullman to proclaim Trafficking Free Zone

The Trafficking Free Zone is a nation-wide program of the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking and local anti-trafficking coalition, the Child Trafficking Solutions Project, an initiative of Alabama’s Children’s Policy Council and the Jefferson Family Court.

AlabamaAwarenessNews

‘A’: Alabama near top of states in response to human trafficking

Alabama recently received an A on its “report card” from Shared Hope International (SHI) for the state’s positive response to the issue of human sex trafficking. Its overall score landed Alabama at the sixth position in the country; neighboring Tennessee took the top spot.

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Vestavia Hills first city in the state to proclaim community a “sex trafficking free zone”

At Monday night’s council meeting in Vestavia Hills, AL, Mayor Ashley Curry signed a proclamation – an initiative of U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking that will require all city staff to be trained on how to spot sex trafficking.

AlabamaNewsPerpetrators

Montgomery human trafficking suspect indicted

Sergio Webb, 29 Montgomery, AL. has been indicted on charges of capital murder, murder, and human trafficking first degree. The murder counts stem from the death of Melissa Metcalf, Webb is charged with human trafficking for a different victim.

AlabamaAwarenessNews

Selling Kids: Human Trafficking in Alabama

“Most of our kids identify as bisexual. And, that’s because they’ve been sold to this person or that person, males and females. So, they don’t know what their gender is,” said Lynn Caffery, Executive Director of the shelter Safe Harbor Youth in Huntsville.

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Alabama to require mandatory human trafficking training for new CDL holders

This law will require any new CDL applicant to undergo industry-specific training to spot human trafficking. The group Truckers Against Trafficking will work with truck driver training schools and trade colleges to facilitate the training.

AlabamaNewsPerpetrators

Nine illegal aliens arrested in north Alabama in possible human trafficking racket

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Tuscaloosa County teacher out on bail faces 3 more sex-related charges

Kenneth Alan Pierce – already charged with three counts of transmitting obscene material to a child and four counts of possession of child porn – was arrested again Wednesday night on two more counts of transmitting obscene material and one count of promoting prostitution.

AlabamaAwarenessNews

NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION IDENTIFIES ‘DIRTY DOZEN’

The NCOSE is the leading organization exposing the links between all forms of sexual exploitation such as child sexual abuse, prostitution, sex trafficking and the public health crisis of pornography. The mission includes any actual or attempted abuse of a position of vulnerability, differential power or trust, for sexual purposes.