Sex trafficking affects an estimated 100,000 American children each year. While many states have worked aggressively to combat the crime by strengthening state laws, several states have slipped dangerously behind the nation.
With nine people around the table, eight of them considered on the frontline of the horrors of human trafficking, the job was to talk openly. Solutions will be long in coming, but action now to curtail this exploitation needs to be taken.
A major conference on human trafficking is underway in Sioux Falls on Friday. Law enforcement, social services workers and health care providers are looking at the issue of human trafficking.
The day long event includes panel discussions featuring Kevin Koliner, Appellate Chief for the U...