Category: child sex trafficking

In-DEPTH: Child Sex Traffickers Are Victimizing Children Across the US

On any given day—in communities across the nation—thousands of children are being victimized by sex traffickers. In 2022, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) received 31.9 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation—up from 29.3 million reports in 2021 and 21.7 million in 2020. NCEMC is a national nonprofit founded in 1984…


Vanguard University Tackles Child Sex Trafficking and Exploitation

Experts at a recent conference, sponsored by and held on the Costa Mesa, California, campus of Vanguard University, discussed little-known facts about child sex trafficking and exploitation as well as its prevention and how to help those affected. During the two-day event from March 3, Dr. Sandra Morgan, the director of the school’s Global Center…


16 Suspects Arrested in Arizona Child Sex Crimes, Trafficking Operation Dubbed ‘Tangled Web’

Police in Arizona have arrested 16 suspects in connection with child sex crimes and human trafficking following an undercover operation, officials said. The joint sting operation, known as “Operation Tangled Web,” was conducted by the Phoenix police Human Exploitation and Trafficking unit alongside Mesa, Tempe, and Phoenix police departments, FBI, Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, Homeland Security Investigations, and Phoenix police…


Utah Investigators Arrest First Suspect in Ritualistic Child Sex Abuse and Trafficking Case

Special investigators with the Utah County Sheriff’s Office in Utah arrested a Provo man on charges of alleged ritualistic child sex abuse stemming from a year-long investigation that is likely to produce more suspects and arrests. David Lee Hamblin, 68, was arrested in Provo on Sept. 28 by members of the sheriff’s special victims unit…


21 Arrested in Child Sex Trafficking Operation in Arizona

Local and federal law enforcement recently rounded up 21 suspects in Arizona who solicited and/or brokered deals for various sex acts with children. The “children” were undercover detectives who “placed ads on websites commonly sought out by suspects seeking illegal sex acts,” according to the Surprise Police Department, located in Maricopa County, Arizona. “Operations of…


Child Sex Trafficking Often Happens Online Via Common Social Media Platforms: Advocate Eliza Bleu

In a recent interview for EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program, sex-trafficking survivor Eliza Bleu explained that the internet is increasingly becoming the primary venue for pedophiles to groom children on popular social media platforms. Bleu, who was groomed and then trafficked as a teenager, now advocates for victims and for an end to the criminal…


The Gateway Pundit Petitions Court to Unseal Epstein’s Alleged Client List

The Gateway Pundit has petitioned a New York federal court to unseal the suspected client list for the alleged child sex trafficking ring run by Jeffrey Epstein and associate Ghislaine Maxwell. Seeking to report on what the lawsuit called the “Epstein Client List,” The Gateway Pundit, a conservative news outlet, filed a motion on July…


PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: Trafficking Survivor Eliza Bleu: How My Abuser Preyed on My Vulnerabilities

This episode will premiere on Thursday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. ET.   “Grooming, in my case, looked like an abuser finding out my vulnerabilities. He knew I wanted to be famous. He knew I wanted to get out of the farm life that I was growing up in.” At the FreedomFest conference in Las Vegas,…


PREMIERING NOW: Trafficking Survivor Eliza Bleu: How My Abuser Preyed on My Vulnerabilities

This episode will premiere on Thursday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. ET.   “Grooming, in my case, looked like an abuser finding out my vulnerabilities. He knew I wanted to be famous. He knew I wanted to get out of the farm life that I was growing up in.” At the FreedomFest conference in Las Vegas,…


Trafficking Survivor Eliza Bleu: How My Abuser Preyed on My Vulnerabilities

“Grooming, in my case, looked like an abuser finding out my vulnerabilities. He knew I wanted to be famous. He knew I wanted to get out of the farm life that I was growing up in.” At the FreedomFest conference in Las Vegas, I sat down with Eliza Bleu, a child sex trafficking survivor. Now…