Grant To Mentor Child Sexual Exploitation

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The U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention offers a grant for the 2011 Mentoring for Child Victims of Commercial Sexual Exploitation Initiative. This grant seeks to increase efforts to mentor kids who’ve been sexually exploited and to increase outreach to victims and provide services to them. The winner of the grant will be expected to develop strategies to recruit, train, support and maintain mentors to support and empower the victims. Deadline: June 6, 2011 11:59

JJIE has written extensively on this subject: Justice Department Sheds Light on Human Trafficking Stats, Upcoming Conferences to Highlight Juvenile Justice, Crimes Against Children, Woman Volunteers Target Online Ads Selling Sex with Children,Law Professor Argues Against Prosecuting Minors for Prostitution

 

 

 

Marietta Man Arrested for Exploiting Children

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The FBI has arrested a Marietta man for forcing an underage girl into prostitution.  Sly Deon Sampson is charged with four felonies including exploitation of children. Sampson’s arrest at a Marietta hotel is the latest by the Metropolitan Atlanta Child Exploitation Task Force, or MATCH.  The task force works with the Atlanta Police Department and other agencies to target the sex trade. As JJIE reported, the Georgia Demand Study, commissioned by A Future. Not a Past., showed that more than 7,000 men pay for sex with underage girls every month. The Atlanta Women’s Foundation and A Future.

Teen Faces Child Porn Charges

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A 17-year-old boy was arrested in Milton for 10 counts of sexual exploitation of minors, according to a WSB-TV report. Child pornography was downloaded onto an IP address in Milton and detected by the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office Special Victims Unit.  The Special Victims Unit then alerted the Milton Police Department, the report states. The children in the movies ranged from ages 5 to 13 years old, according to Detective S.W. Hewitt of the Milton Police Department. Read the full story here.