NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A pastor and Army lieutenant were among the at least 14 charged in a recent week-long human trafficking operation led by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
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District Attorney Glenn Funk on Thursday said he had assigned four assistant prosecutors to focus on sex trafficking cases in Nashville.
Read More“The ultimate form of depravity is when a person turns a little girl into a sex slave,” District Attorney Glenn Funk said in announcing the formation of a human trafficking unit inside the DA’s Office.
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The 2014 Big Payback, a 24-hour online giving challenge, was a lifesaver for End Slavery Tennessee — literally.
With more than $36,000 of donations and prizes, it was the top earning small nonprofit organization in the campaign. The result meant help for even more survivors of human trafficking in Middle Tennessee.
"We had so many new referrals," said CEO Derri Smith, "and you never want to say 'no.'
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He wanted to buy girls "just over 8, not over 16."
That's what Michael Kohlmeyer told a person he thought was a prostitute — actually an undercover Metro police detective — in June 2013.
Read MoreNASHVILLE, Tenn. – The first person ever to be charged and convicted in Davidson County under Tennessee’s enhanced human sex trafficking laws has been sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Michael Kohlmeyer was sentenced Thursday inside a Davidson County courtroom. This was the first case of a sex trafficking buyer being charged and convicted in the State of Tennessee.
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Derri Smith, founder of End Slavery Tennessee forces crowd of 1,800 to confront the presence of human trafficking here in Nashville during TEDxNashville conference on Saturday.
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