trafficking

30,000 Haitian Kids Live in Private Orphanages that Officials want to shutter and Reunite Families

Dánica Coto, Associated PressJune 22, 2023

An estimated 30,000 Haitian children live in hundreds of orphanages where reports of forced labor, trafficking, and physical and sexual abuse are rampant.

National News

Iowa Teen Who Killed Rapist Sentenced, Ordered to Pay $150K

Margery A. Beck, Associated PressSeptember 15, 2022

A teenage human trafficking victim who was initially charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed her accused rapist to death was sentenced on Tuesday, Sept. 13, in an Iowa court to five years of closely supervised probation and ordered to pay $150,000 restitution to the man’s family.