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The Refuge Ranch was a Christian faith-based facility on 50 rural acres in Bastrop County, Texas, for young women who had been subjected to human trafficking, which operated under contract with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) until it was ordered to shut down on March 11, 2022, in the wake of multiple reports of sexual abuse and exploitation, medical neglect and ...
According to a 2011 study conducted by the Dallas Women's Foundation on the status of human trafficking in Dallas, Texas, "740 girls under the age of 18 were documented being marketed for sex during a 30-day period. 712 of these girls were being marketed through Internet classified web sites; 28 were being marketed through escort services."
Texas ranks No. 2 in the U.S. for the number of human trafficking cases, according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline — it’s a $99 million industry in Dallas.
4 charged with human trafficking crimes after 15 women found in North Texas home. ... Anyone who has information about this case or is a victim of human/labor trafficking is asked to call 911 or ...
FORT WORTH — A Fort Worth church will move forward with its plans to build a shelter for victims of human trafficking despite neighborhood opposition. The city council approved the site plan for ...
The role of the HTT is to protect victims utilizing a three-prong approach, (1) aggressively prosecuting those who engage in human trafficking; (2) reducing demand for exploitation in all its forms; and (3) ensuring adequate protection and support for victims of human trafficking." Since 2013 the number of Human Trafficking Offenders Convicted ...
The prevalence of Human trafficking in Houston, Texas is the worst of any U.S. city. Between 2007 and 2016 the city ranked first for reported trafficking cases, [1] while in 2019 the number of cases nearly doubled compared to the previous three years, [2] despite Mayoral initiatives, [3] due to the highly organized nature of this criminal business.
Nace-DeGonda likes to say that social services for human trafficking survivors have gone from that infancy stage in the early 2000s to more of a toddler. The goal hasn't shifted, though.