The photographs on a popular online site advertising “escort” services showed three young women selling their bodies, posed against floor-to-ceiling windows of the same high-rise hotel. One Read more ...

ST. LOUIS — The organizer of a national conference on child sex trafficking says middle school students are being targeted. The conference in St. Louis this week featured leading experts on child Read more ...

Have you talked to your middle schoolers about the dangers of sex trafficking? That was the question at a national conference on child sex trafficking in downtown St. Louis. Organizer Molly Hackett says Read more ...

The organizer of a national conference on child sex trafficking says middle school students are being targeted. More News The conference in St. Louis this week featured leading experts on child sex trafficking. Read more ...

The average starting age is 13. They are girls who grow up in bad neighborhoods with broken families, girls who drop out of school and run away. They are also girls who grow up in the suburbs and get straight Read more ...

Fat Tuesday may be a big night for sex trafficking, according to activists who rescue girls from sex slavery. A coalition of volunteers from around the country, gathered in St. Louis this week, to attack Read more ...

Sex trafficking is not just an international problem, or even a national one. It is also a problem here in St. Louis. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, St. Louis is a hot spot of sex trafficking Read more ...

It's a topic that’s rarely discussed, but yet it’s picking up steam in the United States, and it happens right here in St. Louis. Sex Trafficking: being forced or coerced into the commercial Read more ...

ST. LOUIS - You might expect advocates, law enforcement and business leaders at a conference to end sex trafficking. You might not expect 100 women from across the country who usually live among the Read more ...