We identified an at-risk 16-year-old girl, whom we will call  “V,” from a small village in Southeast Asia. “V” met a young man her age on Facebook, and after some interaction with him online, the man swiftly became her “boyfriend.” As we’ve shared in the Daily Intelligence Brief before, social...

Our team recently identified a potential California trafficking victim we will call “K.” "K" attended a local Christian High School and even made the basketball team as a freshman. Early social media pictures showed a happy, young and healthy girl surrounded by her friends. But then her outlook changed.  Fast...

Below is a firsthand account from a trafficking survivor who recently participated in one of our Samantha Weekends. Here's what she said: Prior to participating in Samantha Weekend at the ATP Leadership Training Center, I felt powerless. I was lost and without any tools to dig my way out. I was...

Our team and our regional partner in Southeast Asia recently had a counseling breakthrough with a teen we will call “Abi.” During an initial counseling session, Abi was shown a lot of pictures and asked to pick the drawings that represented her. Abi chose images of poop, a broom and...

Next up in our trafficking series, we want to share the story of a young girl on the tragic path from innocent teen to trafficking victim to controller of a pimp's “stable” to online recruiter and groomer of innocent young girls. The female predator, pimpstress or madame is not a...

ATP partnered with Stanford University earlier this year to educate some of the world’s future leaders on the realities behind exploitation. ATP, along with our close friend Samantha Summers-Rivas from RubiesLV, spent a few days at Stanford teaching two courses related to the topic.  The workshop course was titled A...

With each passing year, every child has rites of passage they look forward to. Birthdays are a gateway to enjoying a new adult privilege or responsibility. At 16, teens learn to drive. At 18, young adults have their first opportunity to voice their opinion at the polls. When a young...

Over the last several weeks, we have been sharing a peek behind the curtain to show readers what our counter-trafficking team is encountering in searching for victims. Here is another example of the complicated types of trafficking cases we uncover.  Most of us are proud of our family's background, heritage...

In an economically privileged society, many of us enjoy showing off our hard-earned possessions, perhaps putting a unique signature on them so people know they are ours. Whether it’s wearing designer clothing or engraving our technology, customizing our vehicles or monogramming our towels, we like putting our mark on things. ...

At one time or another, every kid is asked what they want to be when they grow up. Some kids follow in their family's footsteps, perhaps upholding and celebrating a long-standing tradition. The sex trafficking world also has its own family traditions in which kids are not given an opportunity...

Sarah-Jane Vegas is a former trafficking victim who found her calling in helping people by creating a refuge for women in trafficking situations. Her organization is called Stand4Justice. Last week in Part 1 of Sarah-Jane’s story, we left off at a point where she had been brought into the sex...

A couple of months ago on the Victor Marx Show, Victor had the opportunity to interview a fascinating woman who has gone from sex trafficking victim to the founder of the nonprofit Stand4Justice. This organization exists to inspire and lead a movement of committed people around he world who will...

Recently, a former sex trafficking victim who has joined us as an intelligence analyst for our counter human trafficking program called “Skull Games” shared her trafficking story with us. We want to share this incredible journey with our readers. We’ve left out some details to guard her privacy. I’m a...

ATP’s Counter Trafficking Team often comes across escort ads highlighting girls we believe are either in the early stages of being trafficked or if over 18, possibly experimenting with prostitution on their own. Recently, we located a young 18-19 year old Ohio woman we will call “J.” We believe “J”...