sex trafficking

As awareness of America's sex-trafficking industry increases, state after state has enacted new laws to combat it. But while a few have backed those get-tough laws with significant funding to support trafficking victims, many have not.

Federal prosecutors say three Philadelphia men and a New York resident face additional charges of conspiring to engage in the sex trafficking of a 15-year-old Tennessee girl.

Law enforcement agents in New Jersey have redoubled efforts to fight what they worry could be one of the biggest menaces to come with next month's Super Bowl: sex trafficking.

A federal judge has dealt a setback to a New Jersey law that would hold Internet providers liable for content sent over their services.

Authorities have broken up what's described as a major human trafficking sex-slave ring in Lakewood, but they say other types of similar rings could be operating all over the Garden State.

The young Mexican women were driven to rural New Jersey, where their handlers used threats to make them have sex with 25 farmworkers a day. Or they were confined to dingy brothels in the New York City area that advertised their services with "chica cards," business cards passed out on street corners to attract customers. They were paid very little, or nothing at all.