HT News Review (Week of 8/17-8/23)

(…plus or minus a few days..)

8/15/08 “Anchorage Man Gets 30 Years in Sex Trafficking, Drugs Case” (The Daily News-Miner)
[tagged for: court cases, prostitution]

8/16/08 “Wichita Film Debuts About Human Trafficking” (KSN News.com)
[tagged for: films, prostitution, sexual exploitation, public awareness]

8/17/08 “Measure would protect pimps, not prostitutes” (San Francisco Chronicle)
[tagged for: legalizing prostitution, sexual exploitation, child prostitution, children]

Triangle-area volunteer needed

Some NCStop members in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area are hoping to bring the film Call + Response to the Triangle. C+R has a volunteer position called “First Responder,” a person whose job is to drum up interest in their area for a screening, and to be the local liaison with C+R.

So if you…
1) live in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill region,
2) want to get involved in the abolitionist movement,
3) have one-to-several hours each week to spare,
and 4) like the idea of organizing people around a very specific project,

…then please contact Melinda.

“Group Strives to Help Victims…” (Asheville Citizen-Times)

- about NCStop’s own Emily Fitchpatrick and the Hope House Project! -

ASHEVILLE – Emily Fitchpatrick hopes her personal journey will help her draw frightened victims away from their own troubles.

Having recovered from alcohol and drug addiction nine years ago, Fitchpatrick said she believes God can help her rescue women who have fallen prey to sex trafficking.

The crimes have gotten national attention, Fitchpatrick said, but little notice locally. Asheville police twice found evidence of young girls forced into prostitution in 2007 but were unable to make arrests, according to police.

“People think this (sex trafficking) happens in other countries, and they don’t want to see that it happens here,” said Fitchpatrick, 30, the director of the Hope House project, a planned home that would provide long-term care for victims.

Read more…

**There is a benefit concert for the Hope House Project in the Asheville area tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon – check out our events page for more info.

Resource Spotlight: Materials from UNC’s April conference

Hey all, if you weren’t able to make it out to UNC’s Combating Sex Trafficking conference this past April, they’ve now got all the presentations uploaded to their website, plus conference outcomes and other resources.