Media Mentions
UCLA study reveals large gaps in data about sex trafficking in United States
Apr 29, 2016 – UCLA study report recommends establishing a national database for FBI and local law enforcement to input, and access information on human trafficking cases across jurisdictions.
Restoring a Child’s Life After the Unthinkable Happens
Feb 1, 2016 – As National Human Trafficking Awareness Month has just come to a close, I want to wrap up my three-part essay series shining a spotlight on the needed restoration of the lives of rescued child sex trafficking victims and, specifically, the incredible work of the Saving Innocence team who have made such a difference in so many lives.
LA Unified joins forces to stop commercial child sex crimes
Nov 18, 2015 – For the past year, LA Unified administrators have joined the fight to stop child sex trafficking with a group of 60 Los Angeles agencies called the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) Task Force.
Nationwide FBI human trafficking sweep nets two arrests in Long Beach
Oct 13, 2015 – Hundreds of juvenile victims of human trafficking were recovered and their pimps arrested during a nationwide operation that included Long Beach and the Los Angeles area.
Kim Biddle Saves Teenagers From A World Of Coercion And Pimps
May 6, 2015 – Saving Innocence founder Kim Biddle describes her realization that child sex trafficking was “shockingly common” in L.A. as her Matrix moment — as if she had taken the red pill that allows Neo to go “back into the computer system, and everyone thinks that’s real life, but he knows better, and he knows this dark truth.”
Prostitution in Los Angeles: Court gives girls in sex trade a second chance
May 18, 2014 – Her face marred by a tattoo that a pimp had used to mark her as his property, the teenage girl told the judge in a plaintive voice, “I just want to go home.”