Laurene Powel Jobs (left), owner of The Atlantic with a friend (who's been a the news quite a bit lately).
Laurene Powel Jobs (left), owner of The Atlantic with a friend (who's been a the news quite a bit lately).
40 states receive failing grade on fighting child sex trafficking, report
Alaska was ranked last out of all the states.
States are scored on six different policy issues and given “extra credit” for
extending certain protective policies to youth aged 18 to 24 and child labor
trafficking victims.
The six issues are:
1. Criminal provisions: “Clear criminal laws, including those that criminalize
buyers of sex with children, are needed to ensure all sex trafficking
offenders can be held accountable.”
2. Identification of and response to victims: “States’ laws must identify all
commercially sexually exploited children as victims of trafficking and
provide for a protective, rather than punitive, response.”
3. Continuum of care: “To break the cycle of exploitation, state laws must
provide victims access to funded, trauma-informed services.”
4. Access to justice for trafficking survivors: “A range of civil and criminal
justice remedies must be available for victims under the law.”
5. Tools for a victim-centered criminal justice response: “Criminal justice
procedures for the benefit and protection of victims must be provided under
the law.”
6. Prevention and training: “To help prevent trafficking and promote more
just responses to child sex trafficking victims, training for child welfare,
juvenile justice agencies, law enforcement, prosecutors, and school
personnel as well as prevention education for students, must be required
by law.”
The 10 states with the highest scores are Florida, Texas, Mississippi, California, Washington, Colorado, Kentucky, Utah, Tennessee, and Louisiana. Besides Florida, the rest of the top 10 states were given a grade of D, with state no. 11, Minnesota, being the only other one with a D grade.
More at the link…
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