A number of tabloid stars (Rihanna, LeBron James, Snoop Dogg, Cara Delevingne and Kim Kardashian West) began using social media to bring attention to a young woman’s plight who is incarcerated at the Tennessee Prison for Women.
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TRUMANN, Ark. — An Arkansas judge has found probable cause to hold a Tennessee man on $1 million bail pending formal charges in what authorities say may have been a sex-trafficking ring.
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One late December morning before school, a 14-year-old girl was on the website http://www.teenchat.com. According to a Metro Police search warrant, someone told the teen through the website that he had her personal information including her name, email and address. He told the girl that he would post the information online if she didn’t send a nude video of herself.
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On the day she met Marcus Thompson, the girl later told the FBI, she had been ready to leap from a bridge to end her life. She was only 15, pregnant and alone on the streets.
Read MoreLiving within a dysfunctional home of mental, emotional and sexual abuse resulted in Anne (not her real name) running away when she was 13. For the next couple of years, she was trafficked before she headed to Nashville to live with her father.
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January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. In Tennessee, 85 counties have reported at least one case of human trafficking.
Read More"It will break the internet." "It is a violation of free speech." "It will stifle the growth of future online companies." These are just a few of the misconceptions being tossed around as justification for opposing proposed legislation that would eliminate immunity granted to internet service providers profiting from children and adult victims of human trafficking, who are being sold for sex through their websites.
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NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) -
It was more than 13 years ago that Nashville teenager Cyntoia Brown was sent to prison for killing a man who picked her up for sex when she was just 16 years old.
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The national conversation about sexual assault and harassment has cast a new spotlight on an old case.
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