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[2] 24 out of 88 counties have no human-trafficking training or access to victim services. [3] A recent study estimated that between 2014-2016, 1,032 Ohio youth and young adults were victims of human trafficking. [4] The National Human Trafficking Resource Center reported receiving 1,066 calls and emails in 2015 about human trafficking in Ohio. [5]
Human trafficking is the modern form of slavery, with illegal smuggling and trading of people, for forced labour or sexual exploitation. Trafficking is officially defined as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by means of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, or abuse of power of a position of vulnerability for the purpose of exploitation.
H.B. 262 (The Ohio Human Trafficking Act of 2012) raised the penalty for committing the crime of human trafficking to a first-degree felony with a mandatory minimum sentence of 10–15 years, created a diversion program for juvenile victims to receive protection and treatment, and allows for adult victims of human trafficking with prior ...
An elementary school teacher, a college professor and a pair of U.S. Air Force members are among 160 people charged in a statewide human trafficking crackdown in Ohio, the state's top prosecutor ...
More than 130 people, including a man from Rootstown, were arrested in a statewide human-trafficking operation last week, according to the Ohio Attorney General's office.
Aug. 10—Staff report COLUMBUS — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced the first-ever statewide human trafficking hotline during his opening remarks at the office's fifth annual Human ...
The law contains provisions for protection of those who are categorized as victims of human trafficking, primarily for sex, smuggling, and forced labor forms of exploitation. The TVPA allowed for the establishment of the Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons , which coordinates with foreign governments to ...
The 114th Congress quickly and vigorously took up the issue of human trafficking, generating twelve bills in the first couple weeks of the new session. [2] The JVTA incorporates provisions from ten of those twelve bills: H.R. 159 (Stop Exploitation of Trafficking Act of 2015), [3] H.R. 181 (Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015), [4] H.R. 246 (To improve the response to victims of ...